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Table 5 Comparison between different response groups in all different tumors

From: Influence of metabolic tumor burden on reference tissues’ standardized uptake values in 18F-FDG PET/CT sequential imaging

In all different tumors (N = 200) % of change in:

MTB

Liver SUVmax

Blood pool SUVmax

Brain SUV max

Muscle SUVmax

Progression versus regression

Mean difference

1337.714

− 17.402

− 17.243

− 32.442

− 4.153

p value

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

NS

Progression versus resolution

Mean difference

1349.381

− 21.666

− 24.954

− 36.375

1.722

p value

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.034

NS

Regression versus resolution

Mean difference

11.667

− 4.264

− 7.711

− 3.933

5.875

p value

NS

NS

NS

NS

NS