Evaluation of therapeutic effect and prognostic value of 18F-FDG PET/CT in different treatment nodes of DLBCL patients

EJNMMI Research

Table 2 Correlation between baseline clinic characteristic and semi-quantitative parameters

clinic characteristic	semi-quantitative parameters
clinic characteristic	SUVmax		TMTV		TLG
	r value	p value	r value	p value	r value	p value
LDH	0.056	0.537	0.690	0.000***	0.666	0.000***
β2-MG	0.053	0.569	0.463	0.000***	0.438	0.000***
Ferritin	0.065	0.508	0.324	0.001**	0.300	0.002**

***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05
LDH lactate dehydrogenase, β2-MG β2-Microglobulin, SUVmax maximum standardized uptake value, TMTV total metabolic tumor volume, TLG total lesion glycolysis