Table 1 Patient and study characteristics of included studies
Author, published year | Country | No. patients (inclusion interval) | Mean age (range) | Male/female | No. knees with edema (no. regions) | Study design | Time interval between DECT and MRI | No. readers | Consensus reading | Reader experience (years) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ai [11] | USA | 14 (2009.03–2011.07) | 24.6 (18–48) | 11/3 | NR (36/56 regions) | Retrospective | < 99 days | 2 | Yes | MSK radiologists (11 + 19) |
Bjorkman [12] | Sweden | 48 (2017.10–2018.03) | 23 (15–37) | 26/22 | 52 (85/192 regions) | Prospective | < 7 days | 2 | Yes | Resident (3) + Radiologist (> 7) |
Booz [13] | Germany | 57 (2017.01–2018.05) | 50 (20–82) | 27/30 | 36 (197/684 regions) | Retrospective | < 7 days | 6 | No | Qualitative: 4 residents (3–4) + 2 radiologists (7–10) Quantitative: medical students (2) |
Cao [14] | China | 32 (2012.04–2012.08) | 39.9 (20–60) | 24/8 | 32 (127/384 regions) | Prospective | ≤ 6 days | 2 | Yes | Radiologists (vastly experienced) |
Foti [15] | Italy | 33 (2019.01–2019.06) | 52.2 (31–76) | 20/13 | 25 (85/396 regions) | Prospective | < 6 days | 2 | Yes | Radiologists (20 + 16) |
Juhng [16] | South Korea | 23 (NR) | 47.4 (14–72) | 11/12 | NR (84/378 regions) | Prospective | NR | 2 | No | Radiologists (5 + 25) |
Liang [17] | China | 23 (2018.07–2019.06) | 47 (21–73) | 10/13 | 24 (121/288 regions) | Prospective | NR | 5 | No | MSK radiologists (8 + 10 + 4 + 5 + 20) |
Pache [18] | Germany | 21 (2009.01–2009.05) | 35.9 (19–60) | 16/5 | NR (59/236 regions) | Prospective | ≤ 5 days | 2 | No | MSK radiologists (5 + 7) |
Wang [19] | China | 39 (2018.03–2018.11) | 36.3 (13–89) | 22/17 | NR (43/195 regions) | Prospective | ≤ 5 days | 3 | Yes | Radiologists (> 5) |