From: Clinical implications of determination of safe surgical margins by using a combination of CT and 18FDG-positron emission tomography in soft tissue sarcoma
Distance from the tumor border
SUV-max (range)
Tumor
11.7 (3.8 ~ 22.1)
0 ~ 1 cm
2.2 (0.3 ~ 3.8)
1 ~ 2 cm
1.1 (0.85 ~ 1.47)
2 ~ 3 cm
0.83 (0.65 ~ 1.15)
3 ~ 4 cm
0.7 (0.42 ~ 0.95)
4 ~ 5 cm
0.64 (0.45 ~ 0.82)