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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurooncol. 2008 Jun 28;90(1):57–61. doi: 10.1007/s11060-008-9631-4

Table 1.

The number of scans included in the analysis, the mean tumor size, and the range of tumor sizes for each measurement method

Scans Evaluated Mean Tumor Size Tumor Size Range*
1 Dimensional
Post-contrast T1-weighted 38 3.0 cm 1.0-5.3 cm
T2-weighted 49 4.2 cm 2.4-8.2 cm
FLAIR 50 4.4 cm 2.2-8.6 cm
2 Dimensional
Post-contrast T1-weighted 33 8.4 cm2 2.4-20.9 cm2
T2-weighted 49 14.2 cm2 4.0-57.3 cm2
FLAIR 50 15.4 cm2 3.8-61.4 cm2
3 Dimensional
Post-contrast T1-weighted 31 30.1 cm3 4.3-109.1 cm3
T2-weighted 48 61.6 cm3 6.9-405.5 cm3
FLAIR 48 68.7 cm3 6.4-459.3 cm3
*

Each tumor measurement was averaged across the four raters before the range of alll measurements was computed