Table III.

Characteristics of PET/CT imaging and of reference standards.

Authors	FDG (MBq)	Measures	Reference standard	Potential verification bias	(Refs.)
Tateishi et al	300–370	Visualization, SUV	Histology and radiological follow-up	Very limited	(6)
Strobel et al	350–400	Visualization, SUV	Histology, clinical and imaging follow-up	Very limited	(7)
Shin et al	8.1/kg	Visualization, SUV	Histology, clinical and imaging follow-up	Limited	(8)
Charest et al	370–500	Visualization, SUV	Histology	Very limited	(9)
Pepirkova et al	370–555	Visualization, SUV	Histology	Very limited	(10)
Fuglø et al	4.0/kg	Visualization, SUV	Histopathology, clinical and imaging follow-up	Limited	(11)
Sharma et al	370	Visualization, SUV	Histopathology, clinical and imaging follow-up	Limited	(12)
Xu et al	3.5/kg	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination	Very limited	(13)
Byun et al	7.4/kg	Visualization, SUV	Histology, clinical and imaging follow-up	Very limited	(14)
Iagaru et al	550	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination of surgical specimen	Very limited	(15)
Evilevitch et al	333–407	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination of surgical specimen	Very limited	(16)
Hamada et al	370	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination of surgical specimen	Very limited	(17)
Benz et al	7.8/kg	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination of surgical specimen	Very limited	(18)
Im et al	166–666	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination of surgical specimen	Very limited	(19)
Byun et al	370	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination of surgical specimen	Very limited	(20)
Byun et al	370	Visualization, SUV	Histopathological examination of surgical specimen	Very limited	(21)

PET, positron emission tomography; CT, computed tomography; SUV, standardized uptake value.