Table 6.
Pooled results
| Number | Age/sex | PET/MRI and PET/CT diagnosis | Definitive diagnosis based on | PET/MRI vs PET/CT discrepancies | SUVmaxPET/MRI to SUVmaxPET/CT ratio |
TBRPET/MRI to TBRPET/CT ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53/M | OM, 3B | N/A | None | 0.7 | 1.0 |
| 2 | 49/F | OM, 3B | Clinical follow-up and surgical experience | Fistula missed on PET/CT | 1.3 | 2.0 |
| 3 | 63/M | OM, 3B | Microbiology | None | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| 4 | 26/M | OM, 3B | Microbiology | None | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| 5 | 48/F | Osteitis | Microbiology | None | 0.6 | 0.8 |
OM osteomyelitis, followed by the Cierny-Mader type and class