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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Cardiol. 2018 Sep 6;27(5):1547–1562. doi: 10.1007/s12350-018-1429-y

Table 3.

Correlation of EKG parameters to metabolic parameters: Spearman rho correlation coefficients between EKG- and FDG-uptake values

SUVmean SUVmax Blackout 50%
P axis (degree) −0.078, P = 0.52 − 0.002, P = 0.98 0.07, P = 0.52
PR interval (ms) −0.06, P = 0.58 − 0.16, P = 0.18 − 0.18, P = 0.11
P-duration Ave (ms) 0.11, P = 0.33 0.07, P = 0.58 0.009, P = 0.94
P wave deflection max (mv) 0.16, P = 0.18 0.187, P = 0.12 0.19, P = 0.11
P-wave terminal force (lVms) 0.29, P = 0.01 0.27, P = 0.02 0.18, P = 0.13

FDG, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose; SUV, standard uptake value; ms, miliseconds; mv, millivolts; μV, microvolts