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. 2016 Dec 14;8(20):33884–33896. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.13934

Table 2. Methods of 18F-FDG PET imaging of the included studies.

Study PET scanners Duration of fasting Pre-injection blood glucose test Post-injection interval Dose of 18F-FDG PET parameters Determination of cut-off values Tumor delineation Cut-off values
SUV MTV (cm3) TLG
Chan, S. C.[30] Discovery ST 16; GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI 6h <150mg/dl 50-70min 370MBq SUVmax, MTV, TLG Minimum P value method SUV2.5 12 110 560
Chan, W. K. S.[31] Discovery VCT; 64MSCT, GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Corp., Piscataway, NJ 6h <144mg/dl 60min 4.8MBq/Kg SUVmax According to other study 7.5
Hsieh, T. C.[32] PET/CT-16 slice, Discovery STE; GE Medical Systems,Milwaukee, WI, 4h NR 60min 370MBq SUVmax ROC curve 8.35
Hung, T. M.[33] CTI&Discovery ST; GE Healthcare 6h NR NR 370MBq SUVmax ROC curve 9.3
Lee, S. W.[34] Siemens/CTI, Knoxville,TN, USA 8h NR 60min 15mCi SUVmax Median value 8
Liu, W. S. [35] ECAT ExactHR+, CTI, Knoxville, TN 6h <150mg/dl 60min 370MBq SUVmax According to other study 5
Moon, S. H.[19] Discovery LS or Discovery STe, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI, USA 6h <200mg/dl 45-60min 5.55MBq/Kg SUVmax, MTV, TLG ROC curve isocontour method 7.8 66 764
Shen, T.[36] Discovery ST 16; GE,Healthcare, Little Chalfont, United Kingdom NR <200mg/dl 45-60min 5.55MBq/Kg SUVmax ROC curve 8.65
Xiao, W. [17] Discovery ST-16; General Electric Company 6h NR 30-40min 4.4-7.4MBq/Kg SUVmax ROC curve 10.22
Xie, P.[37] Discovery LS PET/CT, GE 8h NR 60min 5.55-7.4MBq/Kg SUVmax ROC curve 8
Yang, Z. [38] Knoxville, Tennessee,USA 4h <10mmol/l 60min 7.4MBq/Kg SUVmax, MTV, TLG ROC curve SUV2.5 15.6 28.9 249.1
Yoon, H. I. [39] Discovery STE, GE Healthcare, or Biograph TruePoint 40, Siemens Healthcare, Malvern, PA 4h NR 60min 370MBq TLG Contal and O’Quigley’s method SUV2.5 322.7
Yoon, Y. H. [40] Philips, Milpitas, CA 8h <180mg/dl 45-60min 296-444MBq/Kg SUVmax, MTV ROC curve SUV2.5 8.9 31.45
Zaghloul, H. A. [41] SOMATOMA,Project 10 CT Scanner 6h <150mg/dl 60min 370MBq SUVmax ROC curve 10.3
Zhang, Y. [42] Discovery ST 16; GE Healthcare, Little Chalfont, UK 6h <200mg/dl 45-60min 5.55MBq/Kg SUVmax ROC curve 10.45