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. 2019 Oct 15;9(5):243–247.

Table 1.

Definition and area under the curve (AUC) in the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of SUV parameters

SUV parameter Definition AUC in the ROC curve p-value**
SUVmax decay-corrected activity of tissue volume/injected activity per body mass 0.84 Not applicable
SUVbmi (SUVmax/body weight) × BMI 0.86 0.15
SUVbsa (SUVmax/body weight) × BSA 0.86 0.43
SUVcer SUVmax/SUVcerebellum 0.87 0.32
SUVgluc SUVmax × blood glucose level/100 0.90* 0.03***
*

SUVgluc has the highest AUC among semiquantitative parameters.

**

p-value is in comparison to SUVmax.

***

SUVgluc is the only SUV parameter which significantly improves diagnostic accuracy of SUVmax in differentiating benign vs. malignant lung nodules (P = 0.03).