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Table 3 Overview of stability studies with activity investigated, temperature, amount of ethanol, quality references and shelf life.

From: Stability evaluation of [18F]FDG: literature study, stability studies from two different PET centres and future recommendations

Study

Activity GBq/mL

Temperature

Ethanol (%)

Quality references

Shelf life

Ferreira et al. (2009)

0.3–0.7

RT (22 °C)

≈ 0.04

USP 31

10 h

Walters et al. (2011)

19.7–22.6 EOS

0.2

USP 34

12 h

Dantas et al. (2013)

0.7–4.8

5, 25, 40 °C

0.1-0.4

Ph. Eur. 7ed

16 h

Rahmani et al. (2017)

0.3–0.5

18–23 °C, 35–40 °C

0.012 mg/mL

Ph. Eur. 7ed

10 h

Jószai et al. (2019)

2 and 15

RT

50 mmol/L

Ph. Eur. 9ed

210 min or 15 h

Kiselev et al. (2006)

min. 0.01%/GBq/mL

Fawdry (2007)

6.3 and 11.5

RT

0.1

BP 2005

14 h

Jacobson et al. (2009)

up to 14.2

0.1

Ph. Eur. 6ed

10 h

Rensch et al. (2012)

4–23

14 h

Long et al. (2013)

2.26–8.8

0.2 ± 0.07

USP 34