Cervical Cancer: Associations between Metabolic Parameters and Whole Lesion Histogram Analysis Derived from Simultaneous ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/MRI

Table 1

Overview about published literature regarding correlation analysis between DWI and FDG-PET.

Author	Number of patients	Analyzed parameters	Correlation
Ho et al. [15]	33	ADCmin, mean, SUVmax, mean	No statistically significant correlations
Sun et al. [16]	35	ADCmin, mean, SUVmax, mean	No significant correlation between SUVmax and ADCmin () or between SUVmean and ADCmean () across all 35 primary tumors; for the 28 squamous cell carcinomas, there was also no significant correlation between SUVmax and ADCmin () or between SUVmean and ADCmean ()
Wang et al. [35]	30	ADCmin, mean, SUVmax, mean	No statistically significant correlations between ADC and SUV fractions
Brandmaier et al. [10]	31 (14 primary, 17 recurrence)	ADCmin, mean, SUVmax, mean	SUVmax versus ADCmin () in primary tumors. Primary metastasis showed weak inverse correlations for SUVmax and ADCmin () and moderate correlations for SUVmean and ADCmin ()
Pinker et al. [36]	11	ADCmean, SUVmax	No significant correlations
Surov et al. [14]	21	ADCmin, mean, max, SUVmax, mean	No significant correlations between ADC and SUV fractions
Lai et al. [37]	29	MTV, functional diffusion volume	Significant differences regarding MTV and functional diffusion volume derived from ADC maps