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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 5.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Oct 22;97(2):333–338. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2016.10.029

Table 2.

FDG-PET-CT parameters

Variable n (%) or median (range)
Final PET-CT Deauville score
 1–2 105 (52)
 3 61 (30)
 4 21 (10)
 5 15 (7)
Final PET-CT soft tissue volume (cm3) 14 (0–714)
Final PET-CT maximum SUV 2 (1–20)
Final PET-CT metabolic tumor volume (cm3) 0 (0–648)
Final PET-CT total lesion glycolysis 0 (0–4497)
Reduction in soft tissue volume (%) 91 (−10 to 100)
Reduction in maximum SUV (%) 82 (−120 to 97)
Reduction in metabolic tumor volume (%) 100 (20–100)
Reduction in total lesion glycolysis (%) 100 (26–100)

Abbreviations: CT = computed tomography; FDG = fluorodeoxyglucose; PET = positron emission tomography; SUV = standardized uptake value.