Table 1 Results from Literature Search 2, pertaining to 76 publications. Multiple criteria could be fulfilled by one study (number of publications in parentheses). ‘NM’ denotes ‘nuclear medicine’. Seven papers could not be found in full or translated
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Indication | Study design | Metric | Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
Infective (0) | Animal research study (5) | Absolute (13) | Compared to non-NM data (32) |
Inflammatory (6) | Cohort study (prospective) (35) | Kinetic (1) | Not compared to non-NM data (35) |
Metabolic (3) | Cohort study (retrospective) (18) | Relative (39) | |
Oncologic (16) | Descriptive (2) | SUV (9) | |
Orthopaedic (13) | Systematic review (3) | Other (8) | |
Rheumatologic (8) | Technical (6) | ||
Other (24) |