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. 2018 Dec 11;23(12):120901. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.23.12.120901

Table 1.

Eligibility criteria adapted from Cericato et al.45 for selection of the studies.

Reason for exclusion PubMed Springer Google Scholar Cochrane Total
Literature and/or systematic review 8 8 11 6 33
Article in language other than English 15 15
Letter from the editor, opinion articles 8 8
Fluence not mentioned 3 2 30 8 43
Use of very high fluence: density greater than 500  J/cm2 4 2 8 8 22
Article did not mention power or fluence rate 5 2 16 6 29
Other (book chapter, appendix, bibliograghy, index 4 2 6
Total exclusion 20 14 92 30 156