| Determination of the optimal acquisition protocol of breath-hold PET/CT for the diagnosis of thoracic lesions. | |
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PMID: 21968434 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the optimal acquisition scan protocol for deep inspiration breath-hold (BH) fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (PET) for the examination of thoracic lesions. METHODS: We studied 32 thoracic lesions in 21 patients. Whole-body PET/computed tomography (CT) scanning with free breathing (FB) was performed for 3 min per bed position, followed by a BH-CT and five BH-PET for 20 s each. Summed BH images with total acquisition times of 40, 60, 80 and 100 s were generated (BH×2, BH×3, BH×4 and BH×5, respectively). The displacements between PET and CT images, the lesion volume of the PET image, the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and the quality of the PET image were assessed in relation to the clinical characteristics of each patient and the summation of the BH-PET images. RESULTS: BH-PET decreased the tumor volume significantly (FB: 7.23±9.70 cm, BH×5: 4.71±5.14 cm, P<0.01) and increased the SUVmax (FB: 6.27±5.41, BH×5: 7.53±6.28, P<0.01). The displacement between the PET and CT images was improved significantly in the BH scans (FB: 0.77±0.53 cm, BH×5: 0.36±0.24 cm, P<0.01). In addition, aging and lung function of patients influenced the reproducibility of BH-PET. The summed BH-PET images, obtained by summation of three or more BH-PET images (total acquisition time of 60 s or more), achieved good image quality. CONCLUSION: BH-PET/CT improved the misregistration between PET and CT images and increased the SUVmax of thoracic lesions. The recommended number of BH-PET images for summation with 20 s of acquisition time is three or more. |
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Katsuhiko Mitsumoto; Koichiro Abe; Yuichi Sakaguchi; Tiejiao Zhang; Yosuke Tachiya; Nobuyoshi Ohya; Shingo Baba; Masayuki Sasaki |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-9-30 |
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Title: Nuclear medicine communications Volume: - ISSN: 1473-5628 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-10-4 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8201017 Medline TA: Nucl Med Commun Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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aDepartment of Health Sciences, Division of Radiological Science bDepartment of Clinical Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University cDepartment of Medical Technology, Kyushu University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan. |
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