Table 2.

¹⁸F-FDG PET tumour lesion parameters on a per-patient basis

	All patients (n = 64)	Range
No. of lesions
All	18 (11–51)	1–417
≥ 1 mla,b	6 (2–16)	0–168
SUVpeak
Maximum	9.5 (5.5–15.5)	0–58.3
Median	4.3 (3.2–8.6)	0–25.2
SUVpeak interquartile rangec	2.1 (0–5.1)	0–42.4
SUVmax
Maximum	11.8 (7.3–18.0)	0–67.2
Median	6.1 (4.1–11.5)	0–37.6
SUVmean
Maximum	7.2 (4.7–10.7)	0–30.2
Median	4.3 (3.0–7.3)	0–18.5
Total MATV (ml)	29.2 (12.2–234)	0–2212
Total TLG	209 (46.2–1510)	0–16,740

Data are displayed as median (interquartile range)

^aThree patients had only lesions < 1 ml

^bI.e. all lesions included in quantitative analyses

^cI.e. interquartile range of the different SUV_peaks measured within one patient, measure of intra-patient heterogeneity