TABLE 3

Correlations Between ¹⁸F-FDG Uptake and Tumor Volume and Their Influence on Test–Retest Variability

			Log likelihood ratio test P
			Uptake		Volume
Parameter	Studies	Correlations, uptake vs. volume	Alone	Adjacent volume	Alone	Adjacent mean
SUV_max	H, M, N (manual analysis), and V	0.38	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.03	0.26
SUV_mean	H, M, N, W, and V	0.39	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.03	0.71
SUV_mean	H, N (50% isocontour analysis), and W	0.45	0.002	0.003	0.32	0.78

H = Hoekstra et al.; N = Nahmias et al.; M = Minn et al.; V = Velasquez et al.; W = Weber et al.