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Hidenori Suzuki Katsuhiko Kato Yasushi Fujimoto Yoshiyuki Itoh Mariko Hiramatsu Shinji Naganawa Yasuhisa Hasegawa Tsutomu Nakashima 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2014,28(4):356-362
Objectives
The purpose of this study was to evaluate an association found between overall survival of patients with pharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and pretreatment [18F]-2-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) uptake, which are assessed by positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT). Next, we asked whether 18F-FDG uptake is correlated with overall survival in patients with pharyngeal SCC who underwent radical treatments such as surgery and radiotherapy in the multivariate analysis with adjustments for the clinical stage, primary site and treatment group.Methods
Forty-nine patients who were newly diagnosed as resectable pharyngeal SCC underwent pretreatment 18F-FDG-PET/CT. We used the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) as 18F-FDG uptake. Overall survival rate was calculated by the Kaplan–Meier method. Univariate survival analysis was analyzed by log-rank test, and multivariate survival analysis was performed by a Cox proportional hazards model.Results
Patients with SUVmax of the primary site ≥8 significantly exhibited shorter overall survival in univariate analysis (p < 0.04). Moreover, SUVmax of the primary site ≥8 was a significant prognostic factor in the multivariate analysis (p < 0.03).Conclusions
These results suggested that SUVmax of the primary site obtained by pretreatment 18F-FDG-PET/CT assessment is an important prognostic factor in patients with pharyngeal SCC. 相似文献2.
Reinhart Sweeney Bülent Polat Samuel Samnick Christoph Reiners Michael Flentje Frederik A. Verburg 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2014,28(2):154-162
Aim
To evaluate the prognostic value of O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine positron emission tomography (FET-PET) uptake intensity in World Health Organisation (WHO) tumor grade II–IV gliomas.Methods
We studied 28 patients with WHO tumor grade II–IV gliomas who were referred to our department for radiation therapy. We acquired a FET-PET in all patients, as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain consisting of at least T2-weighted imaging, flair and pre- and post-contrast T1-weighted imaging. SUVmax was measured and the tumor-to-brain uptake ratio (TBR) of all lesions was calculated based on the SUVmax (TBRmax) or SUVmean (TBRmean) of the contralateral healthy tissue. For this study, volumes were calculated using MRI alone, MRI + the volume with a SUVmax on FET-PET ≥ 2.2 as well as MRI + the volume with an uptake of at least 40 % of the SUVmax.Results
Tumor volumes were a median (range) of 88.6 (2.6–467.4) ml (MRI alone), 84.2 (2.8–474.4) ml (MRI + SUVmax on FET-PET ≥ 2.2) and 101.5 (4.0–512.1) ml (MRI + FET-PET uptake ≥ 40 % SUVmax), respectively. TBR-SUVmean was 2.36 (1.46–4.08); TBR-SUVmax was 1.71 (0.97–2.85). During a follow-up of 18.7 (2.5–36.1) months after FET-PET, 12 patients died of malignant glioma. Patients with a SUVmax ≥ 2.6 had a significantly worse tumor-related mortality (p = 0.005) and progression-free survival (p = 0.038) than those with a lower SUVmax. Multivariate analysis showed that WHO tumor grade (p = 0.001) and SUVmax ≥ 2.6 (p < 0.001) were independent predictors for tumor-related mortality, but not tumor volume or TBRmax or TBRmean. SUVmax ≥ 2.6 (p = 0.007) and being treated for a recurrence rather than for a primary tumor manifestation (p = 0.014) were predictors for progression-free survival, but not TBRmax or TBRmean.Conclusion
In this heterogeneous patient population, higher tracer uptake in FET-PET appears to be associated with a worse tumor-related mortality and a shorter duration of the disease-free interval. 相似文献3.
Ronan Abgral Nathalie Keromnes Philippe Robin Pierre-Yves Le Roux David Bourhis Xavier Palard Jean Rousset Gérald Valette Rémi Marianowski Pierre-Yves Salaün 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2014,41(4):659-667
Purpose
The objective of this study was to investigate the value of metabolic tumour volume (MTV) assessed with 18F-FDG PET/CT in predicting event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), and particularly to compare it with more conventional parameters such as maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax).Methods
Patients referred to our department for 18F-FDG PET/CT for staging of HNSCC were prospectively included between February 2009 and March 2011. Each patient was scanned using a Philips Gemini PET/CT system at 1 h after injection. The MTV was calculated semiautomatically for the primary site using methods based on SUV with various thresholds: 3-D contour around voxels equal to or greater than 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 times SUV, or more than 30 %, 40 % and 50 % of SUVmax. ROC analysis was used to test the statistical significance of the differences among the calculated MTVs. EFS and OS were determined using the Kaplan-Meier method and compared with MTV in univariate and multivariate analyses, including the usual prognostic factors: age, sex, primary site, treatment, SCC histologic grade, AJCC stage, TNM classification, tumour SUVmax and SUVpeak.Results
The study included 80 consecutive patients (70 men, 10 women; mean age 62.4?±?9.0 years). ROC analysis revealed that pretreatment MTV using a threshold of 5.0 times SUV (MTV5.0) was the best parameter to predict recurrence and death after treatment. In univariate analysis, MTV5.0 >4.9 ml was predictive of poor EFS (p?<?0.0001) and poor OS (p?<?0.0001). In multivariate, MTV5.0 persisted as an independent predictive factor for EFS (p?=?0.011) and OS (p?=?0.010), while SUVmax became nonsignificant (p?=?0.277 for EFS, p?=?0.975 for OS).Conclusion
Our results suggest that MTV measured by 18F-FDG PET/CT has independent prognostic value of in patients with HNSCC, stronger than SUVmax. 相似文献4.
Scarlett Lewitschnig Keerti Gedela Martina Toby Ranjababu Kulasegaram Mark Nelson Michael O’Doherty Gary J. R. Cook 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2013,40(9):1420-1427
Purpose
To evaluate the utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in suspected cerebral pathology in HIV-infected individuals.Methods
18F-FDG PET/CT scans from 29 HIV-infected individuals (29 brain scans, 22 whole-body scans) who presented with neurological symptoms and signs were retrospectively reviewed and compared with subsequent clinical investigations.Results
The majority of patients (n?=?25) were referred to differentiate infection from malignant causes of cerebral pathology. Ten of the 11 patients with an eventual diagnosis of toxoplasmosis infection were correctly diagnosed by 18F-FDG PET/CT showing lesional uptake less than that of normal brain cortex (mean SUVmax 3.5, range 1.9 – 5.8). All five patients with a final diagnosis of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) were correctly diagnosed by 18F-FDG PET/CT showing lesional uptake greater than that of normal brain cortex (mean SUVmax 18.8, range 12.4 – 29.9). Four of the five patients with 18F-FDG PET/CT features suggesting a vasculitic process had vasculitis confirmed as the final diagnosis. Three patients showed variable uptake in multiple cerebral lesions (including final diagnoses of tuberculosis and metastases from lung cancer in two patients) and there were four other miscellaneous diagnoses. In 12 patients biopsies were performed at sites guided by PET abnormality (7 brain, 5 lymph nodes) confirming or excluding significant disease in 11.Conclusion
18F-FDG PET/CT is particularly useful for differentiating between infection and PCNSL in HIV-infected patients with a cerebral lesion on MRI or CT. 18F-FDG PET/CT was also a helpful tool in the diagnostic work-up of patients with other HIV-related cerebral pathology. Additional advantages of 18F-FDG PET/CT are the abilities to assess abnormally increased glucose metabolism in the body and to identify potential sites for biopsy. 相似文献5.
Helen H. W. Chen Bi-Fang Lee Wu-Chou Su Yu-Hsuan Lai Hung-Yu Chen How-Ran Guo Wei-Jen Yao Nan-Tsing Chiu 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2013,40(10):1478-1485
Purpose
We aimed to determine whether the increment in the maximal standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of the primary lung tumour between the initial and delayed imaging by dual-phase 18F-FDG PET has prognostic value in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Methods
We reviewed the records of patients with NSCLC who underwent pretreatment dual-phase 18F-FDG PET/CT scans acquired at 1 h and 2 h after injection. The SUVmax increment (SUVinc) of the primary lung tumour was the 2-h SUVmax minus the 1-h SUVmax. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to assess the prognostic significance of SUVinc, retention index, whole-body total metabolic tumour volume, whole-body total lesion glycolysis (TLGwb), 1-h SUVmax, 2-h SUVmax, gender, age, performance status, histological subtype, T stage, N stage and clinical stage.Results
The records of 187 consecutive patients were reviewed. The median follow-up time was 3.9 years. The estimated median progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were 1.3 years and 4.4 years, respectively. An SUVinc cut-off value of >1 had the best discriminative yield for PFS. The 3-year PFS and OS were 61.6 % and 87.8 % in patients with SUVinc ≤1 versus 21.1 % and 46.2 % in patients with SUVinc >1 (all P?<?0.01). Using the forward stepwise multivariate Cox proportional hazards model, SUVinc, TLGwb, and clinical stage were significant factors for PFS (all P?<?0.01). A subgroup analysis of 117 patients treated with surgery showed that SUVinc (P?=?0.02) and clinical stage (P?<?0.01) were significant prognostic factors for PFS. Furthermore, in stage I patients treated with surgery alone, SUVinc was the only significant prognostic factor (HR 28.07; 95 % CI 2.42 – 326.41).Conclusion
SUVinc determined from dual-phase 18F-FDG PET is a promising prognostic factor for NSCLC. It adds to the value of dual-phase 18F-FDG PET. 相似文献6.
Motoho Morita Tetsuya Higuchi Arifudin Achmad Azusa Tokue Yukiko Arisaka Yoshito Tsushima 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2013,40(11):1672-1681
Purpose
The usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT for bone metastasis evaluation has already been established. The amino acid PET tracer [18F]-3-fluoro-alpha-methyl tyrosine (18F-FAMT) has been reported to be highly specific for malignancy. We evaluated the additional value of 18F-FAMT PET/CT to complement 18F-FDG PET/CT in the evaluation of bone metastasis.Methods
This retrospective study included 21 patients with bone metastases of various cancers who had undergone both 18F-FDG and 18F-FAMT PET/CT within 1 month of each other. 18F-FDG-avid bone lesions suspicious for malignancy were carefully selected based on the cut-off value for malignancy, and the SUVmax of the 18F-FAMT in the corresponding lesions were evaluated.Results
A total of 72 18F-FDG-positive bone lesions suspected to be metastases in the 21 patients were used as the reference standard. 18F-FAMT uptake was found in 87.5 % of the lesions. In the lesions of lung cancer origin, the uptake of the two tracers showed a good correlation (40 lesions, r?=?0.68, P?<?0.01). Bone metastatic lesions of oesophageal cancer showed the highest average of 18F-FAMT uptake. Bone metastatic lesions of squamous cell carcinoma showed higher 18F-FAMT uptake than those of adenocarcinoma. No significant difference in 18F-FAMT uptake was seen between osteoblastic and osteolytic bone metastatic lesions.Conclusion
The usefulness of 18F-FAMT PET/CT for bone metastasis detection regardless of the lesion phenotype was demonstrated. The fact that 18F-FAMT uptake was confirmed by 18F-FDG uptake suggests that 18F-FAMT PET/CT has the potential to complement 18F-FDG PET/CT for the detection of bone metastases. 相似文献7.
Choon-Young Kim Chae Moon Hong Do-Hoon Kim Seung Hyun Son Shin Young Jeong Sang-Woo Lee Jaetae Lee Byeong-Cheol Ahn 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2013,40(9):1321-1329
Purpose
The aim of this study was to determine whether maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), whole-body metabolic tumour volume (WBMTV), and whole-body total lesion glycolysis (WBTLG) measured on pretreatment 18F-FDG PET/CT can predict prognosis in patients with extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL).Methods
We conducted a retrospective analysis of 20 patients with newly-diagnosed ENKTL who underwent pretreatment 18F-FDG PET/CT. WBMTV and WBTLG were measured automatically using the boundaries of voxels presenting SUV?>?3.0. Uni- and multivariate analyses for survival and disease progression were performed using clinical variables and PET parameters (SUVmax, WBMTV, and WBTLG).Results
During the follow-up period (median 26.3 months), 12 patients showed disease progression and 10 patients died from the disease. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed cut-off values for SUVmax, WBMTV and WBTLG of 8.1, 14.4 cm3 and 52.7, respectively. Univariate analysis showed that the International Prognostic Index (IPI) score and PET parameters were significant predictors of overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS). Multivariate analysis, even after adjustment for the IPI score, showed that high WBMTV was the best predictor of OS and PFS, and high SUVmax and WBTLG were significant predictors of PFS.Conclusion
Our results suggested that the use of PET parameters together with the IPI score may be useful for detailed prediction of prognosis in ENKTL patients. Therefore, despite a lower IPI score, patients with high PET parameter values might be considered candidates for aggressive therapy to improve clinical outcomes. 相似文献8.
Minagawa Y Shizukuishi K Koike I Horiuchi C Watanuki K Hata M Omura M Odagiri K Tohnai I Inoue T Tateishi U 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2011,25(5):339-345
Objective
In radiotherapy and chemotherapy tumor hypoxia is recognized as a major obstacle to effective treatment. We undertook a pilot study in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer to determine whether there is a relationship between tumor uptake of 62Cu-ATSM and response to chemoradiotherapy.Methods
Seventeen patients were studied using PET/CT with 62Cu-ATSM and 18F-FDG prior to the initiation of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. All patients had locally advanced head and neck cancer (stage III or IV). Tumor uptake in all patients was measured by region of interest analysis using the maximal standardized uptake value (SUVmax). A total dose of 50.4–70.2 Gy (median 70.2 Gy) was delivered in 29–39 fractions (median 39 fractions) to tumor. In patients with (non CR) and without (CR) residual/recurrent tumors at 2-year post irradiation, the statistical significance of the differences in tumor 62Cu-ATSM SUVmax, T/M ratio, 18F-FDG SUVmax and tumor volume were analyzed using Student’s t test and Welch test. The relationship between clinical outcome and 62Cu-ATSM/18F-FDG uptake patterns was analyzed using Kruskal–Wallis test. The correlation between SUVmax of 62Cu-ATSM and 18F-FDG was compared by Spearman’s rank correlation test.Results
Two of the 17 patients that were enrolled in our study were excluded from the final analysis. Of the 15 remaining patients, 9 patients were free of disease and 6 patients had residual/recurrent tumors. The SUVmax differed significantly (p < 0.05) between patients with or without residual/recurrent tumor on 62Cu-ATSM PET/CT. Six of the 10 patients with tumors SUVmax >5.00 had residual/recurrent tumor, whereas all of the 5 patients with tumors SUVmax <5.00 were free of disease. There was no significant difference in FDG uptake between patients with and without residual/recurrent tumor.Conclusions
The results of this pilot study suggested that 62Cu-ATSM uptake may be a predictive indicator of tumor response to chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer. 相似文献9.
Punit Sharma Bangkim Chandra Khangembam K. C. Sudhir Suman Harmandeep Singh Sishir Rastogi Shah Alam Khan Sameer Bakhshi Sanjay Thulkar Chandrasekhar Bal Arun Malhotra Rakesh Kumar 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2013,40(7):1036-1043
Purpose
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT for detecting recurrence in patients with primary skeletal Ewing sarcoma.Methods
We retrospectively analysed data from 53 patients (age 20.1?±?10.5 years, 39 male) who had undergone 71 18F-FDG PET/CT studies for suspected recurrence (52 studies) or for routine follow-up (19 studies) after primary therapy of skeletal Ewing sarcoma. 18F-FDG PET/CT studies were evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively (maximum standardized uptake value, SUVmax) by two nuclear medicine physicians in consensus. Sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and accuracy were calculated on per study basis. Clinical/imaging follow-up (minimum 6 months) and/or histopathology (when available) were taken as the reference standard.Results
Of the total of 71 18F-FDG PET/CT studies, 42 (59.1 %) were positive for recurrence and 29 (40.9 %) were negative for recurrence. Local recurrence was most common (38 studies) followed by bone metastasis (9 studies), and node and lung metastasis (2 studies each). Of the 71 studies, 38 were true-positive, 27 were true-negative, 4 were false-positive and 2 were false-negative. Overall per study based sensitivity was 95 %, specificity was 87 %, PPV was 90 %, NPV was 93 % and accuracy was 91.5 %. No significant difference was found in the accuracy of PET/CT between the suspected recurrence group and the routine follow-up group (94 % vs. 84 %; P?=?0.390). Overall mean lesion SUVmax was 7.8?±?4.1 (range 1.9–17.2). No site-based difference was found in SUVmax.Conclusion
18F-FDG PET/CT demonstrates high diagnostic accuracy for detecting recurrence in patients with primary skeletal Ewing sarcoma, when it is suspected (clinically or on imaging) or during routine follow-up. 相似文献10.
Punit Sharma Sachin Jain Sellam Karunanithi Sujoy Pal Pramod Kumar Julka Sanjay Thulkar Arun Malhotra Chandrasekhar Bal Rakesh Kumar 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2014,41(6):1084-1092
Purpose
To evaluate the role of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the detection of recurrence in patients with oesophageal carcinoma, suspected clinically or following conventional investigations.Methods
This was a retrospective study. Data from 180 patients (age 56.3?±?10.4 years; 126 men, 54 women) with histopathologically proven oesophageal carcinoma (squamous cell 115, adenocarcinoma 59, neuroendocrine carcinoma 4, small cell 1, poorly differentiated 1) who had undergone 227 18F-FDG PET/CT studies for suspected recurrence were analysed. Recurrence was suspected clinically or following conventional investigations. PET/CT images were revaluated by two nuclear medicine physicians in consensus. Findings were grouped into local, nodal and distant recurrence. Results were compared to those from contrast-enhanced (CE) CT when available (109 patients). Clinical/imaging follow-up (minimum 6 months) with histopathology (when available) was taken as the reference standard.Results
Of the 227 18F-FDG PET/CT studies,166 were positive and 61 were negative for recurrent disease. PET/CT showed local recurrence in 134, nodal recurrence in 115 and distant recurrence in 47, with more than one site of recurrence in 34. The PET/CT findings were true-positive in 153 studies, true-negative in 54, false-positive in 13 and false-negative in 7. The sensitivity of 18F-FDG PET/CT was 96 %, the specificity was 81 %, the positive and negative predictive values were 92 % and 89 %, respectively, and the accuracy was 91 %. PET/CT showed similar accuracy in patients with squamous cell carcinoma and in those with adenocarcinoma (P?=?0.181).18F-FDG PET/CT was more specific than CECT (67 % vs. 21 %; P?<?0.0001). PET/CT was superior to CECT for the detection of nodal recurrence (P?<?0.0001), but not local recurrence (P?=?0.093) or distant metastases (P?=?0.441).Conclusion
18F-FDG PET/CT shows high accuracy in the detection of suspected recurrence in patients with oesophageal carcinoma. It is more specific than and is superior to CECT in the detection of nodal recurrence. 相似文献11.
Felipe A. Calvo Claudio V. Sole Dolores de la Mata Luis Cabezón Marina Gómez-Espí Emilio Alvarez Paz Madariaga José L. Carreras 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2013,40(5):657-667
Purpose
To prospectively evaluate the usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT) imaging for predicting histopathological response and long-term clinical outcomes in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC).Methods
This prospective study included 38 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of LARC (cT3-4 or cN+) who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT before and after neoadjuvant therapy (NAT). Total mesorectal excision was scheduled 6 weeks after NAT and was followed by an expert histopathological analysis of the surgical specimen. Baseline variables and previously identified maximum FDG standardized uptake value (SUVmax) cut-off values before NAT (SUVmaxPRE ≥6) and after NAT (SUVmaxPOST ≥2), and the absolute and percentage reductions from baseline SUVmax (?SUVmax <4 and ?SUVmax% <65 %, respectively) were applied to differentiate patients showing a metabolic tumour response from nonresponders. These features were correlated with tumour regression grade (TRG), disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS).Results
Significantly higher 5-year DFS and OS were seen in 19 responders (TRG 3 or 4) than in 19 nonresponders (TRG 0–2; 94.4 vs. 48.8 %, p?=?0.001; 94.7 vs. 63.2 %, p?=?0.02, respectively). In multivariate analysis the only PET/CT SUVmax-based parameter significantly correlated with the likelihood of recurrence and survival was ?SUV% <65 % (HR?=?5.95, p?=?0.02, for DFS; HR?=?5.26, p?=?0.04, for OS)Conclusion
This prospective study proved that 18F-FDG PET/CT is a valuable imaging tool for assessing rectal cancer TRG and long-term prognosis, and could potentially serve as an intermediate endpoint in treatment optimization research and rectal cancer patient care. 相似文献12.
Kenji Takemoto Etsuro Hatano Ryuichi Nishii Shinya Kagawa Yoshihiko Kishibe Masaaki Takahashi Hiroshi Yamauchi Kazuyoshi Matsumura Masazumi Zaima Kan Toriguchi Kazutaka Tanabe Koji Kitamura Satoru Seo Kojiro Taura Keigo Endo Shinji Uemoto Tatsuya Higashi 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2014,28(4):371-380
Objective
Although [18F]-FDG is a useful oncologic PET tracer, FDG uptake is known to be low in a certain type of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). [18F]-fluoroacetate (18F-FACE) is an [18F] fluorinated acetate, which is known to be converted into fatty acids, incorporated in membrane and is expected to be a promising oncologic PET tracer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of 18F-FACE as an oncologic PET tracer in preclinical study in healthy volunteers and in patients with liver tumors.Methods
Twenty-four healthy volunteers (age 48.2 ± 12.9 years old; 15 male and 9 female) and ten patients with liver tumor (age 72.1 ± 7.0 years old; 6 male and 4 female) were included. We performed whole-body static PET/CT scan using 18F-FACE (n = 34) and 18F-FDG (n = 5 for volunteers, n = 8 for patients) on each day, respectively. Qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis of tumors (5 HCCs, 1 cholangiocellular carcinoma, 4 metastatic tumors from colon cancer and P-NET) were performed using SUVmax and tumor-to-normal liver ratio (TNR).Results
In healthy volunteers, 18F-FACE was metabolically stable in vivo and its biodistribution was almost similar to blood pool, basically uniformly independent of age and gender during PET scan time (up to 3 h). Normal physiological uptake of 18F-FACE at each organ including liver (SUVmean 1.8 ± 0.2) was lower than that of blood pool (SUVmean 2.3 ± 0.3) at 1 h after injection. Chronic inflammatory uptake around femur of post-operative state of femoral osteotomy and faint uptake of benign hemangioma were observed in a case of healthy volunteer. 18F-FACE (SUVmax 2.7 ± 0.6, TNR 1.5 ± 0.4) of liver tumors was significantly lower than those of 18F-FDG uptake (6.5 ± 4.2, 2.6 ± 1.7, respectively). In qualitative analysis, 18F-FDG was positive in 4 tumors (3 HCCs, 1 CCC) and negative in the other 6 tumors, while 18F-FACE was also positive in 4 tumors which were the same tumors with positive 18F-FDG uptake.Conclusions
Biodistribution of 18F-FACE was appropriate for oncologic imaging. Tumor 18F-FACE uptake was positive in four patients with HCC and CCC, but the uptake pattern was similar to 18F-FDG. Further evaluation was needed. 相似文献13.
Johannes Salamon Simon Veldhoen Ivayla Apostolova Peter Bannas Jin Yamamura Jochen Herrmann Reinhard E. Friedrich Gerhard Adam Victor F. Mautner Thorsten Derlin 《European radiology》2014,24(2):405-412
Objectives
To evaluate the usefulness of normalising intra-tumour tracer accumulation on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) to reference tissue uptake for characterisation of peripheral nerve sheath tumours (PNSTs) in neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) compared with the established maximum standardised uptake value (SUVmax) cut-off of >3.5.Methods
Forty-nine patients underwent FDG PET/CT. Intra-tumour tracer uptake (SUVmax) was normalised to three different reference tissues (tumour-to-liver, tumour-to-muscle and tumour-to-fat ratios). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses were used out to assess the diagnostic performance. Histopathology and follow-up served as the reference standard.Results
Intra-tumour tracer uptake correlated significantly with liver uptake (r s ?=?0.58, P?=?0.016). On ROC analysis, the optimum threshold for tumour-to-liver ratio was >2.6 (AUC?=?0.9735). Both the SUVmax cut-off value of >3.5 and a tumour-to-liver ratio >2.6 provided a sensitivity of 100 %, but specificity was significantly higher for the latter (90.3 % vs 79.8 %; P?=?0.013).Conclusions
In patients with NF1, quantitative 18F-FDG PET imaging may identify malignant change in neurofibromas with high accuracy. Specificity could be significantly increased by using the tumour-to-liver ratio. The authors recommend further evaluation of a tumour-to-liver ratio cut-off value of >2.6 for diagnostic intervention planning.Key Points
? 18 F-FDG PET/CT is used for detecting malignancy in PNSTs in NF1 patients ? An SUV max cut-off value may give false-positive results for benign plexiform neurofibromas ? Specificity can be significantly increased using a tumour-to-liver ratio 相似文献14.
Kenneth E. Pengel Bas B. Koolen Claudette E. Loo Wouter V. Vogel Jelle Wesseling Esther H. Lips Emiel J. Th. Rutgers Renato A. Valdés Olmos Marie Jeanne T. F. D. Vrancken Peeters Sjoerd Rodenhuis Kenneth G. A. Gilhuijs 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2014,41(8):1515-1524
Purpose
To explore the potential complementary value of PET/CT and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI in predicting pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) of breast cancer and the dependency on breast cancer subtype.Methods
We performed 18F-FDG PET/CT and MRI examinations before and during NAC. The imaging features evaluated on both examinations included baseline and changes in 18F-FDG maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) on PET/CT, and tumour morphology and contrast uptake kinetics on MRI. The outcome measure was a (near) pathological complete response ((near-)pCR) after surgery. Receiver operating characteristic curves with area under the curve (AUC) were used to evaluate the relationships between patient, tumour and imaging characteristics and tumour responses.Results
Of 93 patients, 43 achieved a (near-)pCR. The responses varied among the different breast cancer subtypes. On univariate analysis the following variables were significantly associated with (near-)pCR: age (p?=?0.033), breast cancer subtype (p?<?0.001), relative change in SUVmax on PET/CT (p?<?0.001) and relative change in largest tumour diameter on MRI (p?<?0.001). The AUC for the relative reduction in SUVmax on PET/CT was 0.78 (95 % CI 0.68–0.88), and for the relative reduction in tumour diameter at late enhancement on MRI was 0.79 (95 % CI 0.70–0.89). The AUC increased to 0.90 (95 % CI 0.83–0.96) in the final multivariate model with PET/CT, MRI and breast cancer subtype combined (p?=?0.012).Conclusion
PET/CT and MRI showed comparable value for monitoring response during NAC. Combined use of PET/CT and MRI had complementary potential. Research with more patients is required to further elucidate the dependency on breast cancer subtype. 相似文献15.
Go Miyashita Tetsuya Higuchi Noboru Oriuchi Yukiko Arisaka Hirofumi Hanaoka Hideyuki Tominaga Satoshi Morita Mitsuyuki Miyakubo Tomohiro Ishikita Yoshiki Nakasone Akihide Negishi Satoshi Yokoo Keigo Endo 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2010,24(8):579-584
Objective
l-3-[18F]-fluoro-α-methyl tyrosine (FAMT) is transported into cancer cells by l-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1). The purpose of the present study is to correlate the uptake of FAMT and FDG with the cellular proliferative activity measured by the Ki-67 labeling index (Ki-67 LI) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).Methods
Twenty-five patients with OSCC were enrolled in this study. Both FAMT-PET and FDG-PET were performed within 4 weeks before surgery in all cases. The uptake of FAMT and FDG was compared by semiquantitative analysis with maximal standardized uptake values (SUVmax) of the primary tumors. Ki-67 LI of the tumors was analyzed by immunohistochemical staining and correlated with the clinicopathologic variables and the uptake of PET tracers.Results
For primary tumor detection, FAMT-PET exhibited a sensitivity of 84%, whereas that of FDG-PET was 88%. In all visible lesions, mean FDG uptake determined by average SUVmax was 9.7 (range 4.2–15.9) and mean FAMT uptake was 3.5 (range 1.3–8.5). The SUVmax of FAMT tended to show a better correlation with Ki-67 LI (r = 0.878) than that of FDG (r = 0.643).Conclusions
Uptake of FAMT correlated with cellular proliferation of OSCC. FAMT-PET may be a useful procedure to evaluate tumor proliferation of OSCC. 相似文献16.
Ilse J. E. Kouijzer Fidel J. Vos Marcel J. R. Janssen Arie P. J. van Dijk Wim J. G. Oyen Chantal P. Bleeker-Rovers 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2013,40(7):1102-1107
Purpose
Early detection of infectious endocarditis is challenging. For diagnosing infectious endocarditis, the revised Duke criteria are the gold standard. Evidence of endocardial involvement on echocardiography is a major criterion, but sensitivity and specificity of echocardiography are not optimal. Here we investigated the utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) to diagnose infectious endocarditis in patients with gram-positive bacteraemia.Methods
Seventy-two patients with gram-positive bacteraemia were prospectively included. Patients with a positive blood culture growing Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus species or Enterococcus species were eligible when a risk factor for developing metastatic infectious foci was present. Infectious endocarditis was defined according to the revised Duke criteria. All patients underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT and echocardiography. 18F-FDG uptake in or around the heart valves was evaluated independently by two nuclear medicine physicians.Results
Sensitivity for diagnosing infectious endocarditis with 18F-FDG PET/CT was 39 % and specificity was 93 %. The positive predictive value was 64 % and negative predictive value was 82 %. The mortality rate in patients without infectious endocarditis and without increased 18F-FDG uptake in or around the heart valves was 18 %, and in patients without infectious endocarditis but with high 18F-FDG uptake in or around the heart valves the mortality rate was 50 % (p?=?0.181).Conclusion
18F-FDG PET/CT is currently not sufficiently adequate for the diagnosis of infectious endocarditis because of its low sensitivity. Improvements such as patient preparation with low carbohydrate–fat allowed diet and technical advances in the newest PET/CT scanners may increase sensitivity in future studies. 相似文献17.
Chieh Lin Chi-Lai Ho Shu-Hang Ng Po-Nan Wang Yenlin Huang Yu-Chun Lin Tzung-Chih Tang Shu-Fan Tsai Alain Rahmouni Tzu-Chen Yen 《European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging》2014,41(1):41-49
Purpose
We investigated the potential value of 11C-acetate (ACT) PET/CT in characterizing multiple myeloma (MM) compared with 18F-FDG PET/CT. Bone marrow histological and whole-body (WB) MRI findings served as the reference standards.Methods
In this prospective study, 15 untreated MM patients (10 men and 5 women, age range 48?69 years) underwent dual-tracer 11C-ACT and 18F-FDG PET/CT and WB MRI for pretreatment staging, and 13 of them had repeated examinations after induction therapy. Diffuse and focal bone marrow uptake was assessed by visual and quantitative analyses, including measurement of the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax). Between-group differences and correlations were assessed with the Mann-Whitney U test and the Pearson test.Results
At staging, all 15 patients had diffuse myeloma involvement upon bone marrow examination with 30–90 % of plasma cell infiltrates. Diffuse infiltration was detected in all of them (100 %) using 11C-ACT with a positive correlation between bone marrow uptake values and percentages of plasma cell infiltrates (r = +0.63, p?=?0.01). In contrast, a diagnosis of diffuse infiltration could be established using 18F-FDG in only six patients (40 %). Focal lesions were shown in 13 patients on both 11C-ACT PET/CT and WB MRI, and in 10 patients on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Focal lesions demonstrated 11C-ACT uptake with a mean SUVmax of 11.4 ± 3.3 (range 4.6?19.6, n?=?59), which was significantly higher than the 18F-FDG uptake (mean SUVmax 6.6 ± 3.1, range 2.3?13.7, n?=?29; p?<?0.0001). After treatment, the diffuse bone marrow 11C-ACT uptake showed a mean SUVmax reduction of 66 % in patients with at least a very good partial response versus 34 % in those with at most a partial response only (p?=?0.01).Conclusion
PET/CT using 11C-ACT as a biomarker showed a higher detection rate for both diffuse and focal myeloma lesions at diagnosis than using 18F-FDG, and may be valuable for response assessment. 相似文献18.
Ryuichi Nishii Tatsuya Higashi Shinya Kagawa Yoshihiko Kishibe Masaaki Takahashi Hiroshi Yamauchi Hideki Motoyama Kenzo Kawakami Takashi Nakaoku Jun Nohara Misato Okamura Toshiki Watanabe Koichi Nakatani Shigeki Nagamachi Shozo Tamura Keiichi Kawai Masato Kobayashi 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2013,27(9):808-821
Objectives
Although positron emission tomography (PET) using [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (18F-FDG) is established as one of the first-choice imaging modalities in the diagnosis of chest malignancies, there are several problems to solve in clinical practice, such as false positive uptake in inflammatory diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical usefulness of an amino acid tracer, α-[N-methyl-11C]-methylaminoisobutyric acid (11C-MeAIB), in the diagnosis of chest malignancies, in combination with 18F-FDG.Setting
Fifty-nine cases (57 patients, 66 ± 12 years old) who consulted to our institution for the wish to receive differential diagnosis of chest diseases were included. Purpose of the studies were as follows: differential diagnosis of newly developed lung nodules, n = 22; newly developed mediastinal lesions, n = 20; and both, n = 17 (including lung cancer: n = 19, lymphoma: n = 1, other cancers: n = 2, sarcoidosis: n = 15, non-specific inflammation: n = 18, other inflammatory: n = 4, respectively). Whole-body static PET or PET/CT scan was performed 20 and 50 min after the IV injection of 11C-MeAIB and 18F-FDG, respectively.Results
11C-MeAIB uptake of malignant and benign lesions was statistically different both in pulmonary nodules (p < 0.005) and in mediastinal lesions (p < 0.0005). In visual differential diagnosis, 11C-MeAIB showed higher results (specificity: 73 %, accuracy: 81 %), compared to those in 18F-FDG (60, 73 %, respectively). In cases of sarcoidosis, 11C-MeAIB showed higher specificity (80 %) with lower uptake (1.8 ± 0.7) in contrast to the lower specificity (60 %) with higher uptake of 18F-FDG (7.3 ± 4.5).Conclusions
11C-MeAIB PET/CT was useful in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary and mediastinal mass lesions found on CT. 11C-MeAIB PET or PET/CT showed higher specificity than that of 18F-FDG PET/CT in differentiating between benign and malignant disease. Our data suggest that the combination of 18F-FDG and 11C-MeAIB may improve the evaluation of chest lesions, when CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT are equivocal. 相似文献19.
Mai Kim Tetsuya Higuchi Yukiko Arisaka Arifudin Achmad Azusa Tokue Hideyuki Tominaga Go Miyashita Hidetaka Miyazaki Akihide Negishi Satoshi Yokoo Yoshito Tsushima 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2013,27(5):423-430
Objective
L-3-[18F]-fluoro-α-methyl tyrosine (18F-FAMT) is an amino acid tracer for positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) which specifically transported into cancer cells by L-type amino acid transporter 1 (LAT1). LAT1 overexpression in tumors is significantly correlated with cell proliferation and angiogenesis. 18F-FAMT PET/CT, fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were compared for their diagnostic performance in the detection of bone marrow invasion in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).Methods
Twenty-seven patients with OSCC on the upper or lower alveolar ridge underwent staging by MRI, 18F-FDG PET/CT and 18F-FAMT PET/CT studies before surgery. Post-surgical pathologic examination was used as the standard to determine the final diagnoses. The possibility of bone marrow invasion on MRI, 18F-FDG PET/CT and 18F-FAMT PET/CT were usually graded retrospectively into five-point score. Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) were calculated according to the obtained scores.Results
As the sensitivity of 18F-FDG PET/CT was highest (100 %) among that of MRI (95 %) and 18F-FAMT PET/CT (90 %), the specificity of 18F-FAMT PET/CT was highest (85.7 %) among that of MRI (57 %) and 18F-FDG PET/CT (14.3 %). The size of pathological tumor was accorded with that detected by 18F-FAMT PET/CT and was smaller than that detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT (P < 0.01). Significant difference was not found between 18F-FAMT PET tumor volume and pathological tumor volume.Conclusions
18F-FAMT PET/CT was useful and more specific than MRI or 18F-FDG PET/CT in the detection of bone marrow invasion of OSCC and may contribute to minimize the extent of resection in oral surgery patient. 相似文献20.
Jinlin Wang Shiyue Li Yunxiang Zeng Ping Chen Nuofu Zhang Nanshan Zhong 《Annals of nuclear medicine》2014,28(3):276-284