Table 5.
PET/computed tomography versus diffusion-weighted imaging
| PET/CT | DWI | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First author | Site | Analysis | Sensitivity (%; 95 CIs) | Specificity (%; 95 CIs) | Accuracy (%; 95 CIs) | Sensitivity (%; 95 CIs) | Specificity (%; 95 CIs) | Accuracy (%; 95 CIs) |
| Heusner | All | L | 95 | 99 | 98 | 86 | 67 | 71 |
| Heusner | All | C | 94 | 99 | 98 | 91 | 72 | 76 |
| Catalano | All | P | – | – | 75 | – | – | 84 |
| Rezk | All | L | 85 | 86 | 85 | 82 | 78 | 81 |
| Ergul | Axillary LNs | P | 67 | 89 | 75 | 40 | 100 | 63 |
| Heusner | Regional LNs | P | 75 | 100 | 93 | 75 | 64 | 67 |
| Rezk | Regional LNs | L | 90 | 82 | – | 84 | 73 | – |
| Grankvist | Bone | L | 100 | 100 | – | 67A–70B | 40B–95A | – |
| Heusner | Bone | P | 100 | 100 | 100 | 86 | 8 | 35 |
| Heusner | Distant LNs | P | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 0 | 30 |
| Rezk | Distant LNs | L | 86 | 92 | – | 83 | 80 | – |
| Heusner | Lung | P | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Heusner | Liver | P | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 82 | 85 |
| Rezk | Distant lesions | L | 84 | 84 | – | 80 | 81 | – |
| Heusner | Other organs | P | 100 | 94 | 95 | 66 | 94 | 89 |
| Heusner | Organs | C | 100 | 98 | 99 | 87 | 75 | 77 |
A, STIR and DWI with and without T1; B, DWI only; C, compartment level; CI, confidence interval; CT, computed tomography; DWI, diffusion-weighted imaging; L, lesion level; LNs, lymph nodes; P, patient level; STIR, short tau inversion recovery.