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Simple methods favoured
• to reduce scan time– to increase service produced or– to allow more scans per patient (whole body imaging)– to make it easier for seriously ill patients
• to produce diagnostic images with better visual quality• to produce numerical results with smaller variance• to be able to use built-in software• Feasible with all scanners and institutions
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Qualitative analysis: procedure
• inject the radiotracer (FDG)• wait for the radiotracer (re)distribute and
accumulate• scan (whole body, if possible)• visual evaluation of the image:
– preoperative detection– determination of biopsy site– differentiating between recurrence and scarring
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Quantitative analysis
• Needed in:– intermediate cases (with defined cut-off values)– staging of disease– detection of residual masses or relapses after radical
treatment– early monitoring of response to treatment
• Increases the effect size (but also variation)
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Qualitative
Semi-quantitative
Quantitative
Visual assessment
SUV, T/N ratio
FURMTGACompartment
model fit
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What happens to the radiotracer in a PET study?
• Radiotracer is administrated as a short bolus into large vein (in forearm)
• Blood that is coming from all veins is well mixed in the heart
• Arterial blood carries into all body tissues the same concentration of radiotracer per blood volume
• Biochemical properties of the tracer and biology of the target tissue determine at which rates the radioactivity accumulates and is washed away
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time
Arterial blood
time
Myocardium
time
Brain
time
Liver
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What can be measured?
• the properties of the tracer determine what properties of the tissue you can measure– perfusion and first-pass extraction– activity and saturation of membrane transporter– activity of enzymatic pathway in tissue– concentration and affinity of receptor
• Select a suitable tracer !
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Properties of FDG
• FDG is glucose analogue• Glucose and FDG share (compete for) the same
membrane transporters and hexokinase; but with different affinities
• phosphorylated glucose is further metabolized, but FDG-6-PO4 is not
• FDG-6-PO4 is trapped inside cells where it is formed (except in liver and kidneys which contain glucose-6-phosphatase)
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[11C]-Methyl-D-glucose
• Transported into cells like glucose and FDG, but can not be phosphorylated
• Could be used to measure glucose transport and glucose concentration in the tissue
• Not used in diagnostics, but demonstrates the importance of tracer selection!
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Tracer and isotope label
• We are interested in the concentration of tracer in tissues (pmol/mL)
• PET can be used to measure concentration of isotope label (Bq/mL); isotope label is decaying
• Physical decay of the label, physiological clearance of the tracer, and sensitivity of PET scanner set the limits on how long the tracer concentration can be followed
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Tracer and isotope label
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• PET and blood data is corrected for decay to the common time (usually the time of injection, t=0)
• Decay-corrected radioactivity concentrations are directly relational to molar concentrations
Physical decay
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Semiquantitative methods
• Standardized uptake value (SUV)– sometimes named differential uptake ratio (DUR) or
differential absorption ratio (DAR)• Tissue-to-reference tissue ratio
– or tissue-to-normal tissue (T/N) ratio
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Standardized uptake value 1/3
• Enables to compare patients and healthy subjects semi-quantitatively by taking into account– different radiotracer doses and– different body weight (total distribution space of
injected tracer)• Total or lean body mass, or body surface area
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Standardized uptake value 2/3
• Tissue radioactivity and dose must be decay corrected to the same time point
• Instead of weight, body surface area (BSA) is recently recommended: SUVBSA
• In FDG PET, correcting for plasma glucose should be considered
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SUV is time-dependent 3/3
NCI PET Guidelines, 2006
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Tissue-to-reference tissue ratio 1/3
• Inter-individual variation in doses, body weight, and plasma clearance is taken into account by normalizing tissue radioactivity concentration with normal (reference) tissue that is with certainty not affected by the disease
• Commonly used in the brain studies; cerebellum is often used as reference tissue; or the other hemisphere
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Asymmetry index (AI)
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Tissue-to-reference tissue ratio 2/3
• Even simpler method than SUV, because reference tissue is in the same image:– no need to calibrate PET scanner– no need to worry about physical decay corrections
• Problems:– normal tissue not always available– not easy to define the same normal tissue in
repeated scans– image data in low-uptake tissue may be noisy– ratio is a complex function of time
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Tissue-to-reference tissue ratio 3/3
• Muscle is frequently used as reference for tumor• FDG uptake in muscle may increase if patient is
nervous or position is hard to keep
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SUV vs T/N ratio
Scores
SUV T/N ratio
“Normal” tissue not required ++ --
Dynamic scanning not required + +
Blood sampling not required +++++ +++++
Time-independent ---- ----
Cross-calibration not required - +
Independent of plasma clearance -- ++
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What is the optimal scan time?
• Initially, do long dynamic PET scans• Take blood samples: blood sampling allows to
use of quantitative analysis methods that are not time-dependent
• Calculate results from different time ranges:– Select the scan time that best predicts clinical
outcome– Select the scan time that best correlates with
quantitative method
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If semiquantitative method does not work
• develop a new better radiotracer, or• collect more information in the PET studies
– blood sampling– dynamic scanning– extended scanning times
• and use kinetic analysis methods to separate the important tissue property from the less important but more prominent ones
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Tracer concentration in blood
• Arterial concentration from injection time to the end of PET scan
• When used in the kinetic model:– accounts for plasma clearance– reference tissue is not needed
(but may be useful, if it exists)
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Arterial blood curve
• Arterial catheterization:– Burdensome– Applied in diagnostic studies only if absolutely
necessary• Non-invasively from dynamic PET image
– if heart is visible, or– if abdominal aorta is visible, or– if other main arteries are visible with high-resolution
scanners
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Arterialized venous blood curve
• Venous blood curve can not be used, because it has very different shape (lower peak)
• Solution: hand is warmed to increase blood flow and shunting
• Resulting venous blood curve is acceptable for diagnostic studies
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Quantitative methods
• Multiple-time graphical analysis (MTGA):– Gjedde-Patlak plot (“Patlak”)
• Fractional uptake rate (FUR)– Logan plot
• Compartment model fit• Distributed model• Spectral analysis
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Gjedde-Patlak plot• There can be any number of
reversible compartments, where the tracer can come and go.
• After some time, tracer concentrations in these compartments start to follow the tracer concentration changes in plasma (ratio does not change).
• Then, any change in the total tissue concentration (measured by PET) per plasma concentration, represents the change in irreversible compartments.
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Gjedde-Patlak plot
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Ki and metabolic rate
• If PET tracer is an analogue of glucose (e.g. [F-18]FDG) or fatty acids (e.g. [F-18]FTHA) or other native substrate, then
• Ki can be used to calculate the metabolic rate of the native substrate
• For example; [F-18]FDG PET study:
LC
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Fractional uptake rate (FUR)
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FUR
• FUR is an approximation to the Gjedde-Patlak plot slope Ki:– at large T (late time after injection) the effective
distribution volume term in Gjedde-Patlak analysis is not important, and y axis intercept can be assumed to be 0
• Fractional uptake rate was previously sometimes called retention index (Ri)
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Logan plot
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• Y-axis: Integral of tissue curve divided by tissue concentration
• X-axis: Integral of plasma curve divided by plasma concentration
• Slope equals volume of distribution, VT
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Irreversible or reversible uptake?
• Make Gjedde-Patlak plot (MTGA for irreversible tracers
• If plot becomes linear, then uptake is irreversible (during PET scanning)
• If plot turns down, try Logan plot (MTGA for reversible tracers)
• If plot becomes linear, then uptake is reversible
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Summary of MTGA• Gjedde-Patlak plot for irreversible uptake, Logan plot for
reversible• Linearity of plots must be checked; otherwise time-independent• Plasma or reference region input can be used, depending on the
tracer• Outcome from Gjedde-Patlak plot is net influx constant Ki which
may be used further to calculate metabolic rate, or Kiref with
reference region input• Outcome from Logan plot is distribution volume VT, or distribution
volume ratio DVR = VT/VTREF with reference region input
• Easy and fast to calculate pixel-by-pixel from dynamic PET images to produce Ki or VT images
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Perfusion with [15O]H2O
• Based on the principle of exchange of inert gas between blood and tissues (Kety-Schmidt, 1945)
• Perfect first-pass extraction
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Perfusion with [15O]H2O: ARG
• Autoradiographic (ARG) method:– 1.5 - 5 min scan time– Arterial blood curve from PET image or from arterial
line using on-line sampler– Partition coefficient of water (p) is assumed to be
known; when true value is different, bias is introduced
– Produces high-quality images of perfusion
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Computation using ARG 1/3
• Take measured PET image• Calculate the AUC (integral from
scan start to end) of each voxel curve
• create a (look-up) table with two columns
• in the first column, write perfusion values from the whole physiological range with reasonable distance
PerfusionmL*(100g*min)-1
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• take the measured blood curve• for each row, calculate the predicted tissue curve with
that perfusion (f) and assumed p
• calculate AUC of predicted tissue curve and write it in the second column
Computation using ARG 2/3
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Computation using ARG 3/3• Go through the AUC image one voxel
at a time– get the AUC image voxel value– look for the closest AUC value from the
second column of the table– replace the voxel value with the
corresponding perfusion value from the first column
• Now you have a “parametric” image, where each voxel value represents quantitative perfusion in units mL blood / 100 g tissue / min
PerfusionmL*(100g*min)-1
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Region of interest and target size
• If target is large,small ROI will givecorrect result
• If target is small,result is alwaysunderestimated
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Region of interest and target size
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Region of interest andtissue heterogeneity
• Tissue heterogeneitywill lead tomixture of tissuesinside any ROI
• At its best, regionalresult represents theaverage
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Models for heterogeneous data
• Results from multiple-time graphical analysis (MTGA) represent (weighed) average of tissues inside the ROI
• Optimal scan time for SUV may change• Methods based on assumption of homogenous
tissue may lead to over- or underestimation
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Clinical model validation
• Repeatability coefficient (RC) and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) must be high (test-retest setting)
• Effect size and discriminating power must high (patient-control or treatment-placebo study)
• Any new simplification needs to be fully evaluated before it is used in large-scale studies
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Selecting the method
• Follow international guidelines in clinical use• The best method in science lab may not be
feasible in clinical lab:– Higher dose and longer scan would provide better
image quality– Blood sampling would increase effect size– FDG usually is the only available tracer, although
another tracer would provide better results
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