Tissue | n | Acquisition time (min after injection) | Mean or median SUVmax | SD or interquartile range | P |
Malignant | |||||
All lesions | 203 | 60 | 10.78* | 14.57† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 12.86* | 18.08† | |||
Prostate | 30 | 60 | 19.17 | 12.28 | <0.001¶ |
120 | 23.27 | 15.77 | |||
Vesicles | 6 | 60 | 16.57* | 12.67† | 0.028‡ |
120 | 21.03* | 18.01† | |||
Lymph nodes total | 125 | 60 | 8.65* | 13,34† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 11.05* | 17.13† | |||
Local lymph nodes | 81 | 60 | 7.48* | 14.31† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 10.25* | 17.93† | |||
Distant lymph nodes | 44 | 60 | 10.77* | 11.58† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 14.27* | 15.18† | |||
Osseous | 42 | 60 | 11.00* | 14.19† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 12.83* | 18.72† | |||
Normal | |||||
Liver | 65 | 60 | 6.96* | 1.68† | 0.520‡ |
120 | 6.93* | 1.41† | |||
Spleen | 63 | 60 | 5.96 | 2.16 | <0.001¶ |
120 | 4.78 | 1.73 | |||
Kidney | 64 | 60 | 48.05* | 19.65† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 41.63* | 20.29† | |||
Duodenum | 65 | 60 | 10.79* | 5.06† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 12.41* | 6.42† | |||
Blood pool | 62 | 60 | 1.85* | 0.47† | <0.001‡ |
120 | 1.41* | 0.46† | |||
Bone marrow | 62 | 60 | 1.26 | 0.29 | <0.001¶ |
120 | 0.99 | 0.18 |
For data not normally distributed: *median and †interquartile range. ¶Wilcoxon signed-rank test. For data normally distributed: mean, SD, and ¶Paired t test.