TABLE 2

Results of Linear Regression for SUV_roi

Patient no.	No. of ROIs	Slope	Intercept	Correlation coefficient (r)	P^*
1	37	−0.02	1.48	−0.33	<0.05
2	114	−0.05	2.62	−0.43	<0.001
3	99	−0.17	4.91	−0.67	<0.001
4	85	−0.10	2.52	−0.70	<0.001
5	70	−0.06	1.34	−0.34	<0.01
6	70	−0.04	1.78	−0.30	<0.05
7	86	−0.06	2.41	−0.25	<0.05
8	68	−0.09	1.89	−0.49	<0.001
9	28	0.28	0.15	0.54	<0.01
10	30	0.44	0.36	0.83	<0.001
11	93	0.16	2.26	0.58	<0.001
12	78	0.10	1.16	0.74	<0.001
13	94	0.22	1.03	0.58	<0.001

↵* Pearson correlation.