The relation between the blood glucose level and the FDG uptake of tissues at normal PET examinations

EJNMMI Research

Table 1 Correlation between blood glucose concentration and mean SUVmean of various normal tissues/organs at FDG PET examination

	Liver	Spleen	Lungs	Blood	Muscles	Bone marrow
Correlation coefficient	0.14	0.10	0.01	0.12	0.24	0.06
Significance (p)	0.001 ≤ p < 0.01	0.01 ≤ p < 0.05	ns	0.001 ≤ p < 0.01	<0.001	ns
R ²	0.019	0.010	0.000	0.014	0.055	0.004