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Modeling of the renal kinetics of the AT1 receptor specific PET radioligand [11C]KR31173. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2013; 2013:835859. [PMID: 24083243 PMCID: PMC3780470 DOI: 10.1155/2013/835859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2013] [Accepted: 07/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
Purpose. The radioligand [11C]KR31173 has been introduced for PET imaging of the angiotensin II subtype 1 receptor (AT1R). The purpose of the present project was to employ and validate a compartmental model for quantification of the kinetics of this radioligand in a porcine model of renal ischemia followed by reperfusion (IR). Procedures. Ten domestic pigs were included in the study: five controls and five experimental animals with IR of the left kidney. To achieve IR, acute ischemia was created with a balloon inserted into the left renal artery and inflated for 60 minutes. Reperfusion was achieved by deflation and removal of the balloon. Blood chemistries, urine specific gravity and PH values, and circulating hormones of the renin angiotensin system were measured and PET imaging was performed one week after IR. Cortical time-activity curves obtained from a 90 min [11C]KR31173 dynamic PET study were processed with a compartmental model that included two tissue compartments connected in parallel. Radioligand binding quantified by radioligand retention (80 min value to maximum value ratio) was compared to the binding parameters derived from the compartmental model. A binding ratio was calculated as DVR = DVS/DVNS, where DVS and DVNS represented the distribution volumes of specific binding and nonspecific binding. Receptor binding was also determined by autoradiography in vitro. Results. Correlations between rate constants and binding parameters derived by the convolution and deconvolution curve fittings were significant (r > 0.9). Also significant was the correlation between the retention parameter derived from the tissue activity curve (Yret) and the retention parameter derived from the impulse response function (fret). Furthermore, significant correlations were found between these two retention parameters and DVR. Measurements with PET showed no significant changes in the radioligand binding parameters caused by IR, and these in vivo findings were confirmed by autoradiography performed in vitro. Conclusions. Correlations between various binding parameters support the concept of the parallel connectivity compartmental model. If an arterial input function cannot be obtained, simple radioligand retention may be adequate for estimation of in vivo radioligand binding.
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Qiu P, Wang ZJ, Liu KJR, Szabo Z. An activity-subspace approach for estimating the integrated input function and relative distribution volume in PET parametric imaging. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE : A PUBLICATION OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY 2009; 13:25-36. [PMID: 19129021 DOI: 10.1109/titb.2008.2004485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) imaging technique enables the measurement of neuroreceptor distributions corresponding to anatomic structures, and thus, allows image-wide quantification of physiological and biochemical parameters. Accurate quantification of the concentration of neuroreceptor has been the objective of many research efforts. Compartment modeling is the most widely used approach for receptor binding studies. However, current compartment-model-based methods often either require intrusive collection of accurate arterial blood measurements as the input function, or assume the existence of a reference region. To obviate the need for the input function or a reference region, in this paper, we propose to estimate the input function. We propose a novel concept of activity subspace, and estimate the input function by the analysis of the intersection of the activity subspaces. Then, the input function and the distribution volume (DV) parameter are refined and estimated iteratively. Thus, the underlying parametric image of the total DV is obtained. The proposed method is compared with a blind estimation method, iterative quadratic maximum-likelihood (IQML) via simulation, and the proposed method outperforms IQML. The proposed method is also evaluated in a brain PET dataset.
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- Peng Qiu
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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Xia J, Seckin E, Xiang Y, Vranesic M, Mathews WB, Hong K, Bluemke DA, Lerman LO, Szabo Z. Positron-Emission Tomography Imaging of the Angiotensin II Subtype 1 Receptor in Swine Renal Artery Stenosis. Hypertension 2008; 51:466-73. [DOI: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.107.102715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The angiotensin II subtype 1 receptor (AT
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R) has been linked to the development and progression of renovascular hypertension. In this study we applied a pig model of renovascular hypertension to investigate the AT
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R in vivo with positron-emission tomography (PET) and in vitro with quantitative autoradiography. AT
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R PET measurements were performed with the radioligand [
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C]KR31173 in 11 control pigs and in 13 pigs with hemodynamically significant renal artery stenosis; 4 were treated with lisinopril for 2 weeks before PET imaging. The radioligand impulse response function was calculated by deconvolution analysis of the renal time-activity curves. Radioligand binding was quantified by the 80-minute retention of the impulse response function. Median values and interquartile ranges were used to illustrate group statistics. Radioligand retention was significantly increased (
P
=0.044) in hypoperfused kidneys of untreated (0.225; range: 0.150 to 0.373) and lisinopril-treated (0.237; range:0.224 to 0.272) animals compared with controls (0.142; range:0.096 to 0.156). Increased binding of [
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C]KR31173 documented by PET in vivo was confirmed by in vitro autoradiography. Both in vivo and in vitro binding measurements showed that the effect of renal artery stenosis on the AT
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R was not abolished by lisinopril treatment. These studies provide insight into kidney biology as the first in vivo/in vitro experimental evidence about AT
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R regulation in response to reduced perfusion of the kidney. The findings support the concept of introducing AT
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R PET as a diagnostic biomarker of renovascular disease.
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- Jinsong Xia
- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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- From the Departments of Radiology (J.X., E.S., M.V., W.B.M., K.H., D.A.B., Z.S.) and Physiology (Y.X.), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md; Department of Medicine (L.O.L.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minn
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