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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 6.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Imaging Biol. 2013 Dec;15(6):776–785. doi: 10.1007/s11307-013-0629-8

Table 3.

SUV measurements in normal structures. Statistical analysis of differences and correlations between CTAC and MRAC

Bone Cardiac Fat Iliacus Liver Lung MBP Psoas

SUVmax
 Spearman r 0.80 0.96 0.48 0.41 0.68 0.70 0.68 0.54
 CTAC 2.06±0.62 3.62±2.58 0.37±0.19 0.84±0.28 2.42±0.52 0.52±0.17 1.67±0.40 0.84±0.33
 MRAC 2.38±0.86 4.30±3.54 0.37±0.19 0.95±0.41 2.46±0.62 0.51±0.20 1.24±0.40 1.20±0.49
 Difference 0.33±0.55 0.68±1.23 0.01±0.12 0.11±0.39 0.05±0.47 0.00±0.16 −0.43±0.31 0.36±0.29
p value <0.001 <0.001 0.75 0.09 0.54 0.97 <0.001 <0.001
SUVmean
 Spearman r 0.83 0.97 0.53 0.32 0.66 0.67 0.69 0.58
 CTAC 1.70±0.53 3.03±2.21 0.28±0.17 0.65±0.23 1.88±0.40 0.41±0.13 1.42±0.33 0.69±0.42
 MRAC 1.91±0.65 3.42±2.88 0.27±0.17 0.71±0.33 1.74±0.41 0.39±0.14 0.98±0.33 0.75±0.36
 Difference 0.21±0.36 0.40±0.86 0.00±0.08 0.07±0.32 −0.14±0.33 −0.02±0.12 −0.44±0.27 0.07±0.32
p value <0.001 0.01 0.72 0.20 0.01 0.24 <0.001 0.20

MBP mediastinal blood pool

Values reported for CTAC, MRAC, and differences are mean±standard deviation. Difference is MRAC-CTAC difference. All values are rounded to two decimal places