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Calatayud-Jordán J, Carrasco-Vela N, Chimeno-Hernández J, Carles-Fariña M, Olivas-Arroyo C, Bello-Arqués P, Pérez-Enguix D, Martí-Bonmatí L, Torres-Espallardo I. Y-90 PET/MR imaging optimization with a Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction algorithm. Phys Eng Sci Med 2024:10.1007/s13246-024-01452-7. [PMID: 38884672 DOI: 10.1007/s13246-024-01452-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging after90 Y liver radioembolization is used for both lesion identification and dosimetry. Bayesian penalized likelihood (BPL) reconstruction algorithms are an alternative to ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) with improved image quality and lesion detectability. The investigation of optimal parameters for90 Y image reconstruction of Q.Clear, a commercial BPL algorithm developed by General Electric (GE), in PET/MR is a field of interest and the subject of this study. The NEMA phantom was filled at an 8:1 sphere-to-background ratio. Acquisitions were performed on a PET/MR scanner for clinically relevant activities between 0.7 and 3.3 MBq/ml. Reconstructions with Q.Clear were performed varying the β penalty parameter between 20 and 6000, the acquisition time between 5 and 20 min and pixel size between 1.56 and 4.69 mm. OSEM reconstructions of 28 subsets with 2 and 4 iterations with and without Time-of-Flight (TOF) were compared to Q.Clear with β = 4000. Recovery coefficients (RC), their coefficient of variation (COV), background variability (BV), contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and residual activity in the cold insert were evaluated. Increasing β parameter lowered RC, COV and BV, while CNR was maximized at β = 4000; further increase resulted in oversmoothing. For quantification purposes, β = 1000-2000 could be more appropriate. Longer acquisition times resulted in larger CNR due to reduced image noise. Q.Clear reconstructions led to higher CNR than OSEM. A β of 4000 was obtained for optimal image quality, although lower values could be considered for quantification purposes. An optimal acquisition time of 15 min was proposed considering its clinical use.
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- José Calatayud-Jordán
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain.
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- Radiophysics and Radiological Protection Service, Clinical University Hospital of Valencia, Av. Blasco Ibáñez 17, 46010, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI230) at Health Research Institute Hospital La Fe (IIS La Fe), La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Radiology, La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI230) at Health Research Institute Hospital La Fe (IIS La Fe), La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
- Department of Radiology, La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
- Biomedical Imaging Research Group (GIBI230) at Health Research Institute Hospital La Fe (IIS La Fe), La Fe University and Polytechnical Hospital, Av. Fernando Abril Martorell 106, 46026, Valencia, Spain
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Knešaurek K, Martinez RB, Ghesani M. Tumour-to-normal tissue (T/N) dosimetry ratios role in assessment of 90Y selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT). Br J Radiol 2022; 95:20210294. [PMID: 34762514 PMCID: PMC8722260 DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20210294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of our work is to assess the role of tumour-to-normal tissue (T/N) dosimetry ratios for predicting response in patients undergoing locoregional therapy to the liver with 90Y microspheres. METHODS A total of 39 patients (7 female:32 male, mean age 68.3 ± 7.6 years), underwent positron emission tomography (PET)/CT imaging after treatment with 90Y microspheres. For attenuation correction and localization of the 90Y microspheres, the low-dose, non-diagnostic CT images from PET/CT were used. The acquisition took 15 min and the reconstruction matrix size was 200 × 200 × 75 mm and voxel size of 4.07 × 4.07 × 3.00 mm. For dosimetry calculations, the local deposition method with known activity of 90Y was used. For each patient, regions of interest for tumour(s) and whole liver were manually created; the normal tissue region of interest was created automatically. mRECIST criteria on MRI done at 1 month post-treatment and subsequently every 3 months after 90Y treatment, were used to assess response. RESULTS For 39 patients, the mean liver, tumour and normal tissue doses (mean ± SD) were, 55.17 ± 26.04 Gy, 911.87 ± 866.54 Gy and 47.79 ± 20.47 Gy, respectively. Among these patients, 31 (79%) showed complete response (CR) and 8 (21%) showed progression of disease (PD). For patients with CR, the mean T/N dose ratio obtained was 24.91 (range 3.09-80.12) and for patients with PD, the mean T/N dose ratio was significantly lower, at 6.69 (range 0.36-14.75). CONCLUSION Our data show that patients with CR have a statistically higher T/N dose ratio than those with PD. Because, the number of PD cases was limited and partial volume effect was not considered, further investigation is warranted. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE T/N dosimetry ratios can be used for assessing response in patients undergoing locoregional therapy to the liver with 90Y microspheres.
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- Karin Knešaurek
- Diagnostic, Molecular & Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Diagnostic, Molecular & Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Diagnostic, Molecular & Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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Knešaurek K. An estimate of 90Y dosimetry for bremsstrahlung SPECT/CT imaging in liver therapy with 90Y microspheres. Eur J Radiol 2021; 139:109698. [PMID: 33848778 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2021.109698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Bremsstrahlung SPECT/CT (bSPECT/CT) is one of the most common methods for post-therapy imaging in 90Y microspheres selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) of liver cancers. Here, we are proposing a simple approach using bSPECT/CT to estimate mean absorbed dose to the liver in patients undergoing treatment with 90Y microspheres. MATERIALS AND METHODS In our previous study comparing 90Y dosimetry obtained using bSPECT/CT vs PET/CT, we found that there was a large difference between the mean absorbed dose values to the whole-liver. However, there was a high linear correlation between the doses, which presented an opportunity for quantitative assessment using bSPECT/CT 90Y imaging. In this study, after treatment with 90Y microspheres, 43 patients were immediately imaged on a dual-head Infinia SPECT/CT gamma camera and on a mCT PET/CT system. Images from 25 of the patients, randomly selected, were used to calculate the correlation of mean liver doses obtained from bSPECT/CT vs. PET/CT. For the remaining 18 patients, the calculated correlation was used to estimate doses obtained from bSPECT/CT, and these estimations were then compared to the doses obtained from PET/CT, considered the gold standard for quantitative analysis. RESULTS From the 25 selected patients, the calculated linear correlation between bSPECT/CT and PET/CT 90Y mean absorbed doses in whole liver was high (r^2 = 0.97), with a slope of 2.80 and an intercept of -0.63. This linear fit was used to calculate the bSPECT/CT doses for the remaining 18 patients. For these patients, the mean whole-liver dose obtained from bSPECT/CT fitted data vs that obtained from PET/CT were 50.59 Gy and 50.81 Gy, respectively. The average dose difference was 0.2 ± 5.4 Gy (range -18.2%-13.0%). The repeatability coefficient was 10.5 (20.8 % of the mean). CONCLUSION Although quantitative bremsstrahlung imaging is difficult, it is possible to calculate adequate estimates of whole-liver dosimetry from bSPECT/CT imaging that is calibrated using its correlation with post-therapy PET/CT 90Y images.
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- Karin Knešaurek
- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Box 1141, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
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Maughan NM, Garcia-Ramirez J, Arpidone M, Swallen A, Laforest R, Goddu SM, Parikh PJ, Zoberi JE. Validation of post-treatment PET-based dosimetry software for hepatic radioembolization of Yttrium-90 microspheres. Med Phys 2019; 46:2394-2402. [PMID: 30742714 DOI: 10.1002/mp.13444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2018] [Revised: 01/27/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2019] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Yttrium-90 (90 Y) microsphere radioembolization enables selective internal radiotherapy for hepatic malignancies. Currently, there is no standard postdelivery imaging and dosimetry of the microsphere distribution to verify treatment. Recent studies have reported utilizing the small positron yield of 90 Y (32 ppm) with positron emission tomography (PET) to perform treatment verification and dosimetry analysis. In this study, we validated a commercial dosimetry software, MIM SurePlan™ LiverY90 (MIM Software Inc., Cleveland, OH), for clinical use. METHODS A MATLAB-based algorithm for 90 Y PET-based dosimetry was developed in-house and validated for the purpose of commissioning the commercial software. The algorithm is based on voxel S values and dosimetry formalism reported in MIRD Pamphlet 17. We validated the in-house algorithm to establish it as the ground truth by comparing results from a digital point phantom and a digital uniform cylinder to manual calculations. Once we validated our in-house MATLAB-based algorithm, we used it to perform acceptance testing and commissioning of the commercial dosimetry software, MIM SurePlan, which uses the same dosimetry formalism. A 0.4 cm/5% gamma test was performed on PET-derived dose maps from each algorithm of uniform digital and nonuniform physical phantoms filled with 90 Y chloride solution. Average dose (Davg ) and minimum dose to 70% (D70 ) of a given volume of interest (VOI) were compared for the digital phantom, the physical phantom, and five patient cases (27 tumor VOIs), representing different clinical scenarios. RESULTS The gamma-pass rates were 97.26% and 97.66% for the digital and physical phantoms, respectively. The differences between Davg and D70 were 0.076% and 0.10% for the digital phantom, respectively, and <5.2% for various VOIs in the physical phantom. In the clinical cases, 96.3% of the VOIs had a difference <5% for Davg , and 88.9% of the VOIs had a difference <5% for D70 . CONCLUSIONS Dose calculation results from MIM SurePlan were found to be in good agreement with our in-house algorithm. This indicates that MIM SurePlan performs as it should and, hence, can be deemed accepted and commissioned for clinical use for post-implant PET-based dosimetry of 90 Y radioembolization.
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- Nichole M Maughan
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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Knešaurek K, Tuli A, Pasik SD, Heiba S, Kostakoglu L. Quantitative comparison of pre-therapy 99mTc-macroaggregated albumin SPECT/CT and post-therapy PET/MR studies of patients who have received intra-arterial radioembolization therapy with 90Y microspheres. Eur J Radiol 2018; 109:57-61. [PMID: 30527312 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2018.10.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2018] [Revised: 09/12/2018] [Accepted: 10/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to compare yttrium -90 (90Y) dosimetry obtained from pre-therapy 99mTc-macroaggregated albumin (MAA) SPECT/CT versus post-therapy PET/MRI imaging among patients with primary or metastatic hepatic tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prior to 90Y radioembolization (RE), 32 patients underwent a scan using MAA mimicking 90Y distribution. After RE with 90Y microspheres, the patients were imaged on a PET/MRI system. Reconstructed images were transferred to a common platform and used to calculate 90Y dosimetry. The Passing-Bablok regression scatter diagram and the Bland and Altman method were used to analyze the difference between dosimetry values. RESULTS For MAA and PET/MRI modalities, the mean liver doses for all 32 subjects were 43.0 ± 20.9 Gy and 46.5 ± 22.7 Gy, respectively, with a mean difference of 3.4 ± 6.2 Gy. The repeatibility coefficient was 12.1 (27.0% of the mean). The Spearman rank correlation coefficient was high (ρ = 0.92). Although, there was a substantial difference in the maximum doses to the liver between the modalities, the mean liver doses were relatively close, with a difference of 24.0% or less. CONCLUSIONS The two main contributors to the difference between dosimetry calculations using MAA versus 90Y PET/MRI can be attributed to the changes in catheter positioning as well as the liver ROIs used for the calculations. In spite of these differences, our results demonstrate that the dosimetry values obtained from pre-therapy MAA SPECT/CT scans and PET/MRI post-therapy 90Y studies were not significantly different.
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- Karin Knešaurek
- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA; Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA; Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA; Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA; Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA; Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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Knešaurek K, Tuli A, Kim E, Heiba S, Kostakoglu L. Comparison of PET/CT and PET/MR imaging and dosimetry of yttrium-90 ( 90Y) in patients with unresectable hepatic tumors who have received intra-arterial radioembolization therapy with 90Y microspheres. EJNMMI Phys 2018; 5:23. [PMID: 30159638 PMCID: PMC6115317 DOI: 10.1186/s40658-018-0222-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2017] [Accepted: 07/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of our study was to compare 90Y dosimetry obtained from PET/MRI versus PET/CT post-therapy imaging among patients with primary or metastatic hepatic tumors. First, a water-filled Jaszczak phantom containing fillable sphere with 90Y-chloride was acquired on both the PET/CT and PET/MRI systems, in order to check the cross-calibration of the modalities. Following selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with 90Y microspheres, 32 patients were imaged on a PET/CT system, immediately followed by a PET/MRI study. Reconstructed images were transferred to a common platform and used to calculate 90Y dosimetry. A Passing-Bablok regression scatter diagram and the Bland and Altman method were used to analyze the difference between the dosimetry values. RESULTS The phantom study showed that both modalities were calibrated with less than 1% error. The mean liver doses for the 32 subjects calculated from PET/CT and PET/MRI were 51.6 ± 24.7 Gy and 46.5 ± 22.7 Gy, respectively, with a mean difference of 5.1 ± 5.0 Gy. The repeatability coefficient was 9.0 (18.5% of the mean). The Spearman rank correlation coefficient was very high, ρ = 0.97. Although the maximum dose to the liver can be significantly different (up to 40%), mean liver doses from each modalities were relatively close, with a difference of 18.5% or less. CONCLUSIONS The two main contributors to the difference in 90Y dosimetry calculations using PET/CT versus PET/MRI can be attributed to the differences in regions of interest (ROIs) and differences attributed to attenuation correction. Due to the superior soft-tissue contrast of MRI, liver contours are usually better seen than in CT images. However, PET/CT provides better quantification of PET images, due to better attenuation correction. In spite of these differences, our results demonstrate that the dosimetry values obtained from PET/MRI and PET/CT in post-therapy 90Y studies were similar.
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- Karin Knešaurek
- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1141, New York, NY, 10029, USA.
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1141, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1141, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1141, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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Maughan NM, Eldib M, Faul D, Conti M, Elschot M, Knešaurek K, Leek F, Townsend D, DiFilippo FP, Jackson K, Nekolla SG, Lukas M, Tapner M, Parikh PJ, Laforest R. Multi institutional quantitative phantom study of yttrium-90 PET in PET/MRI: the MR-QUEST study. EJNMMI Phys 2018; 5:7. [PMID: 29616365 PMCID: PMC5882483 DOI: 10.1186/s40658-018-0206-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Background Yttrium-90 (90Y) radioembolization involves the intra-arterial delivery of radioactive microspheres to treat hepatic malignancies. Though this therapy involves careful pre-treatment planning and imaging, little is known about the precise location of the microspheres once they are administered. Recently, there has been growing interest post-radioembolization imaging using positron-emission tomography (PET) for quantitative dosimetry and identifying lesions that may benefit from additional salvage therapy. In this study, we aim to measure the inter-center variability of 90Y PET measurements as measured on PET/MRI in preparation for a multi-institutional prospective phase I/II clinical trial. Eight institutions participated in this study and followed a standardized phantom filling and imaging protocol. The NEMA NU2-2012 body phantom was filled with 3 GBq of 90Y chloride solution. The phantom was imaged for 30 min in listmode on a Siemens Biograph mMR non-TOF PET/MRI scanner at five time points across 10 days (0.3–3.0 GBq). Raw PET data were sent to a central site for image reconstruction and data analysis. Images were reconstructed with optimal parameters determined from a previous study. Volumes of interest (VOIs) matching the known sphere diameters were drawn on the vendor-provided attenuation map and propagated to the PET images. Recovery coefficients (RCs) and coefficient of variation of the RCs (COV) were calculated from these VOIs for each sphere size and activity level. Results Mean RCs ranged from 14.5 to 75.4%, with the lowest mean RC coming from the smallest sphere (10 mm) on the last day of imaging (0.16 MBq/ml) and the highest mean RC coming from the largest sphere (37 mm) on the first day of imaging (2.16 MBq/ml). The smaller spheres tended to exhibit higher COVs. In contrast, the larger spheres tended to exhibit lower COVs. COVs from the 37 mm sphere were < 25.3% in all scans. For scans with ≥ 0.60 MBq/ml, COVs were ≤ 25% in spheres ≥ 22 mm. However, for all other spheres sizes and activity levels, COVs were usually > 25%. Conclusions Post-radioembolization dosimetry of lesions or other VOIs ≥ 22 mm in diameter can be consistently obtained (< 25% variability) at a multi-institutional level using PET/MRI for any clinically significant activity for 90Y radioembolization.
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- Nichole M Maughan
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4921 Parkview Place, Campus Box 8224, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1470 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10029, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, 160 Convent Ave, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Siemens Healthineers, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., 40 Liberty Boulevard, Malvern, PA, 19355-9998, USA
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- Molecular Imaging, Siemens Healthineers, 810 Innovation Dr, Knoxville, TN, 37932, USA
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Postboks 8905, 7491, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, One G. Levy Pl., Box 1141, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Agency for Science Technology and Research, National University of Singapore Clinical Imaging Research Centre, 14 Medical Drive, #B1-01, Singapore, 117599, Singapore
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- Agency for Science Technology and Research, National University of Singapore Clinical Imaging Research Centre, 14 Medical Drive, #B1-01, Singapore, 117599, Singapore
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Mail Code Jb3, 9500 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin, TU München, Strasse 22, 81675, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitépl. 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany.,Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Sirtex Medical Ltd, Level 33, 101 Miller St, North Sydney, NSW, 2060, Australia.,ABX-CRO Advanced Pharmaceutical Services, 1 Begonia Road, Normanhurst, NSW, 2076, Australia
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, 4921 Parkview Place, Campus Box 8224, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
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- Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, 510 S. Kingshighway, Campus Box 8225, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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Walrand S, Hesse M, Jamar F, Lhommel R. The origin and reduction of spurious extrahepatic counts observed in 90Y non-TOF PET imaging post radioembolization. Phys Med Biol 2018. [PMID: 29513273 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aab4e9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Our literature survey revealed a physical effect unknown to the nuclear medicine community, i.e. internal bremsstrahlung emission, and also the existence of long energy resolution tails in crystal scintillation. None of these effects has ever been modelled in PET Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. This study investigates whether these two effects could be at the origin of two unexplained observations in 90Y imaging by PET: the increasing tails in the radial profile of true coincidences, and the presence of spurious extrahepatic counts post radioembolization in non-TOF PET and their absence in TOF PET. These spurious extrahepatic counts hamper the microsphere delivery check in liver radioembolization. An acquisition of a 32P vial was performed on a GSO PET system. This is the ideal setup to study the impact of bremsstrahlung x-rays on the true coincidence rate when no positron emission and no crystal radioactivity are present. A MC simulation of the acquisition was performed using Gate-Geant4. MC simulations of non-TOF PET and TOF-PET imaging of a synthetic 90Y human liver radioembolization phantom were also performed. Internal bremsstrahlung and long energy resolution tails inclusion in MC simulations quantitatively predict the increasing tails in the radial profile. In addition, internal bremsstrahlung explains the discrepancy previously observed in bremsstrahlung SPECT between the measure of the 90Y bremsstrahlung spectrum and its simulation with Gate-Geant4. However the spurious extrahepatic counts in non-TOF PET mainly result from the failure of conventional random correction methods in such low count rate studies and poor robustness versus emission-transmission inconsistency. A novel proposed random correction method succeeds in cleaning the spurious extrahepatic counts in non-TOF PET. Two physical effects not considered up to now in nuclear medicine were identified to be at the origin of the unusual 90Y true coincidences radial profile. TOF reconstruction removing of the spurious extrahepatic counts was theoretically explained by a better robustness against emission-transmission inconsistency. A novel random correction method was proposed to overcome the issue in non-TOF PET. Further studies are needed to assess the novel random correction method robustness.
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Eldib M, Oesingmann N, Faul DD, Kostakoglu L, Knešaurek K, Fayad ZA. Optimization of yttrium-90 PET for simultaneous PET/MR imaging: A phantom study. Med Phys 2016; 43:4768. [DOI: 10.1118/1.4958958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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PET/MRI of Hepatic 90Y Microsphere Deposition Determines Individual Tumor Response. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2015; 39:855-64. [PMID: 26721589 PMCID: PMC4858549 DOI: 10.1007/s00270-015-1285-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2015] [Accepted: 12/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Purpose The purpose of our study is to determine if there is a relationship between dose deposition measured by PET/MRI and individual lesion response to yttrium-90 (90Y) microsphere radioembolization. Materials and Methods 26 patients undergoing lobar treatment with 90Y microspheres underwent PET/MRI within 66 h of treatment and had follow-up imaging available. Adequate visualization of tumor was available in 24 patients, and contours were drawn on simultaneously acquired PET/MRI data. Dose volume histograms (DVHs) were extracted from dose maps, which were generated using a voxelized dose kernel. Similar contours to capture dimensional and volumetric change of tumors were drawn on follow-up imaging. Response was analyzed using both RECIST and volumetric RECIST (vRECIST) criteria. Results A total of 8 hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), 4 neuroendocrine tumor (NET), 9 colorectal metastases (CRC) patients, and 3 patients with other metastatic disease met inclusion criteria. Average dose was useful in predicting response between responders and non-responders for all lesion types and for CRC lesions alone using both response criteria (p < 0.05). D70 (minimum dose to 70 % of volume) was also useful in predicting response when using vRECIST. No significant trend was seen in the other tumor types. For CRC lesions, an average dose of 29.8 Gy offered 76.9 % sensitivity and 75.9 % specificity for response. Conclusions PET/MRI of 90Y microsphere distribution showed significantly higher DVH values for responders than non-responders in patients with CRC. DVH analysis of 90Y microsphere distribution following treatment may be an important predictor of response and could be used to guide future adaptive therapy trials.
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