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Does chemotherapy influence the quantification of SUV when contrast-enhanced CT is used in PET/CT in lymphoma?
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  17694309     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
PURPOSE: In patients with lymphoma, we investigated the impact of contrast-enhanced CT on PET attenuation correction in lesions and normal tissues, particularly when PET/CT was performed after chemotherapy. METHODS: Fifty patients (51+/-18 years) with Hodgkin's disease (n=17) or non-Hodgkin lymphomas (n=33) were studied before and after chemotherapy. PET/CT scans were performed 60 min after injection of FDG. Iopamiron 300 (iopamidol, 1.5 cc/kg) was injected immediately afterwards, followed 50 s later by a second craniocaudal CT (CT+). PET images were successively reconstructed using the unenhanced CT (PET-) and the CT+ (PET+) for attenuation correction, using iterative reconstruction (4 iterations, 8 subsets, 5 mm post-filtering). HU(mean), SUV(max) and SUV(mean) were measured before and after chemotherapy in ten non-tumoural ROIs [aorta, femur, kidney, lung, iliopsoas muscle, occipital cortex, T12 vertebra, liver, spleen and inferior vena cava (IVC)] and in tumoural lymphadenopathies or malignant tissues (n=397 and 51 VOIs respectively before and after chemotherapy) using a 3D-thresholding method (identical threshold for PET- and PET+). ROIs were defined on the PET- and automatically applied on the unenhanced CT (CT-), the CT+ and the PET+. RESULTS: In the non-tumoural tissues, HU(mean) increased significantly in the CT+ compared with the CT- in the vessels and the highly vascularised organs, and slight increases were observed in the occipital cortex (+11%), the iliopsoas muscle (+6%) and the femur (+3%). SUV(max) increased significantly in the PET+ compared with the PET- in the aorta (+14%), the liver (+10%), the spleen (+10%) and the IVC (+12%). SUV(mean) increased significantly in the PET+ compared with the PET- in the aorta (+15%), the kidney (+13%), the liver (+11%), the spleen (10%) and the IVC (+12%). In the lesions, HU(mean) was not significantly different before and after chemotherapy, whatever the normal region considered. SUV(max) increased significantly after treatment in the T12 vertebra (+12%). SUV(mean) increased significantly after treatment in the T12 vertebra (+13%) and in the liver (+12%). HU(mean) increased significantly in the CT+ compared with the CT- in the lesions (+55%) before chemotherapy. SUV(max) and SUV(mean) increased significantly in the PET+ compared with the PET- in the lesions (+4%) only before chemotherapy. No significant difference was seen in measurements (HU(mean), SUV(max) and SUV(mean)) after chemotherapy. CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrates that use of enhanced CT for attenuation correction has a negligible effect on quantification at staging and after chemotherapy. A "single-shot" enhanced PET/CT may thus be performed in the evaluation of patients with lymphoma at staging, during treatment and at follow-up.
Authors:
Pierre Vera; Matthieu John Ouvrier; Sébastien Hapdey; Marc Thillays; Anne Sophie Pesquet; Brigitte Diologent; Françoise Callonec; Anne Hitzel; Agathe Edet-Sanson; Jean François Ménard; Fabrice Jardin; Hervé Tilly
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2007-08-11
Journal Detail:
Title:  European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging     Volume:  34     ISSN:  1619-7070     ISO Abbreviation:  Eur. J. Nucl. Med. Mol. Imaging     Publication Date:  2007 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-02-18     Completed Date:  2008-06-02     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101140988     Medline TA:  Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging     Country:  Germany    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1943-52     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Henri Becquerel Centre and Rouen University Hospital, 1 rue d'Amiens, Rouen, France. pierre.vera@rouen.fnclcc.fr
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Antineoplastic Agents / administration & dosage*
Artifacts
Contrast Media*
Female
Humans
Lymphoma / drug therapy*,  radiography*
Male
Middle Aged
Positron-Emission Tomography / methods*
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Subtraction Technique*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Antineoplastic Agents; 0/Contrast Media

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