. 2020 Aug 28;10:100. doi: 10.1186/s13550-020-00678-2

Table 2.

Average SUV_mean values obtained at 60 min post-injection of [¹⁸F]FSPG and [¹⁸F]FDG for each of the cancer types

	Head and neck cancer			Colorectal cancer			Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
SUV 60 min p.i. (g/ml)	[¹⁸F]FSPG	[¹⁸F]FDG	Ratio SUV_FSPG/SUV_FDG	[¹⁸F]FSPG	[¹⁸F]FDG	Ratio SUV_FSPG/SUV_FDG	[¹⁸F]FSPG	[¹⁸F]FDG	Ratio SUV_FSPG/SUV_FDG
	(mean ± SD)			(mean ± SD)			(mean ± SD)
Primary	2.8 ± 2.1	4.9 ± 2.2	0.57	5.4 ± 1.3	6.9 ± 0.8	0.78	1.9 ± 3.1	1.9 ± 1.6	1.00
Metastases	1.3 ± 0.7	3.0 ± 1.4	0.43	2.5 ± 2.4	3.5 ± 3.5	0.71	-	-
Aorta	0.8 ± 0.3	1.6 ± 0.3	0.50	0.9 ± 0.4	1.9 ± 0.5	0.47	1.0 ± 0.3	1.7 ± 0.3	0.59
Pancreas	7.4 ± 1.4	1.7 ± 0.2	4.35	7.0 ± 1.4	1.7 ± 0.4	4.12	7.1 ± 1.7	1.9 ± 0.3	3.74
Heart	0.7 ± 0.1	2.4 ± 1.3	0.29	0.8 ± 0.4	3.9 ± 1.5	0.21	0.9 ± 0.1	2.0 ± 0.5	0.45
Kidney whole	9.8 ± 1.3	3.2 ± 0.6	3.06	16.1 ± 7.3	4.7 ± 2.6	3.43	11.4 ± 2.7	4.4 ± 1.4	2.59
Kidney cortex	8.2 ± 0.6	2.6 ± 0.1	3.15	11.3 ± 3.7	2.8 ± 1.0	4.04	10.6 ± 2.8	2.7 ± 0.4	3.93
Brain	0.1 ± 0.0	7.9 ± 1.4	0.01	0.12 ± 0.04	7.8 ± 2.0	0.01	0.1 ± 0.0	8.2 ± 3.6	0.01
Muscle	0.2 ± 0.04	0.7 ± 0.1	0.29	0.2 ± 0.1	0.6 ± 0.1	0.33	0.3 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.1	0.38
Lung	0.2 ± 0.04	0.4 ± 0.1	0.50	0.3 ± 0.1	0.5 ± 0.2	0.60	0.3 ± 0.1	0.5 ± 0.2	0.60
Liver	1.2 ± 0.3	2.3 ± 0.2	0.52	1.5 ± 0.4	2.3 ± 0.3	0.65	1.5 ± 0.1	2.6 ± 0.3	0.58
Tumor: brain	27.6	0.6	46.00	45.3	0.9	50.33	18.9	0.2	94.50
Tumor: aorta	3.3	3.0	1.10	5.7	3.7	1.54	1.9	1.1	1.73
Tumor: muscle	12.6	7.2	1.75	20.9	11.2	1.87	6.7	2.5	2.68
Tumor: liver	2.3	2.2	1.05	3.7	3.0	1.23	1.3	0.8	1.63
Tumor: pancreas	0.4	2.9	0.14	0.8	1.7	0.47	0.3	1	0.30
Tumor: kidney	0.3	1.5	0.20	3.4	1.5	2.27	0.2	0.4	0.50

The tumor-to-background ratios are also shown and were taken with respect to six different relevant backgrounds: brain, aorta (blood pool), muscle (left gluteal muscle), liver, pancreas, and kidney