Table 3:

Diagnostic accuracies of Cho/Cr and/or LL/Cr ratios at short echo time (TE), intermediate TE, and both TEs in differentiation between low-grade (II) and high-grade (III + IV) gliomas using the cutoff (threshold) values obtained with minimum C1 error

Accuracy (%)Sensitivity (%)Specificity (%)PPV (%)NPV (%)
Grading with Cho/Cr and/or LL/Cr at short TE85.792.957.189.766.7
Grading with Cho/Cr and/or LL/Cr at intermediate TE82.989.357.189.357.1
Grading with Cho/Cr and/or LL/Cr at both TEs85.796.442.987.175.0
  • Note:—Cho indicates choline, Cr, creatine; NAA, N-acetylaspartate; LL, lipid and lactate; mIns, myo-inositol; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value.