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Table 1 Tumour and lymph node volumes, hypoxic subvolumes

From: Effect of radiochemotherapy on T2* MRI in HNSCC and its relation to FMISO PET derived hypoxia and FDG PET

week

GTV-T [ml]

GTV-LN [ml]

HSV-T [ml]

HSV-LN [ml]

0

37 ± 22

16 ± 14

4 ± 7

2.1 ± 3.3

2

24 ± 15

14 ± 14

1 ± 2

0.8 ± 1.4

5

16 ± 11

7 ± 6

0.001 ± 0.004

0.19 ± 0.59

∆ 0–5

- 57%

- 56%

- 100%

- 91%

  1. Mean volumes (± STD) for tumour (GTV-T), lymph nodes (GTV-LN) and hypoxic subvolumes delineated on FMISO-PET (HSV-T, HSV-LN) before (week 0) and during radiochemotherapy (week 2 and 5)