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Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms

Rationale: To formally determine the repeatability of Ga-68 PSMA lesion uptake in both relapsing and metastatic tumor. In addition, it was hypothesized that the BPL algorithm Q. Clear has the ability to lower SUV signal variability in the small lesions typically encountered in Ga-68 PSMA PET imaging...

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Autores principales: Roef, Mark J., Rijnsdorp, Sjoerd, Brouwer, Christel, Wyndaele, Dirk N., Arends, Albert J.
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34208531
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11061100
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author Roef, Mark J.
Rijnsdorp, Sjoerd
Brouwer, Christel
Wyndaele, Dirk N.
Arends, Albert J.
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Rijnsdorp, Sjoerd
Brouwer, Christel
Wyndaele, Dirk N.
Arends, Albert J.
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description Rationale: To formally determine the repeatability of Ga-68 PSMA lesion uptake in both relapsing and metastatic tumor. In addition, it was hypothesized that the BPL algorithm Q. Clear has the ability to lower SUV signal variability in the small lesions typically encountered in Ga-68 PSMA PET imaging of prostate cancer. Methods: Patients with biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer were prospectively enrolled in this single center pilot test-retest study and underwent two Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT scans within 7.9 days on average. Lesions were classified as suspected local recurrence, lymph node metastases or bone metastases. Two datasets were generated: one standard PSF + OSEM and one with PSF + BPL reconstruction algorithm. For tumor lesions, SUVmax was determined. Repeatability was formally assessed using Bland–Altman analysis for both BPL and standard reconstruction. Results: A total number of 65 PSMA-positive tumor lesions were found in 23 patients (range 1 to 12 lesions a patient). Overall repeatability in the 65 lesions was −1.5% ± 22.7% (SD) on standard reconstructions and −2.1% ± 29.1% (SD) on BPL reconstructions. Ga-68 PSMA SUVmax had upper and lower limits of agreement of +42.9% and −45.9% for standard reconstructions and +55.0% and −59.1% for BPL reconstructions, respectively (NS). Tumor SUVmax repeatability was dependent on lesion area, with smaller lesions exhibiting poorer repeatability on both standard and BPL reconstructions (F-test, p < 0.0001). Conclusion: A minimum response of 50% seems appropriate in this clinical situation. This is more than the recommended 30% for other radiotracers and clinical situations (PERCIST response criteria). BPL does not seem to lower signal variability in these cases.
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spelling pubmed-82338852021-06-27 Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms Roef, Mark J. Rijnsdorp, Sjoerd Brouwer, Christel Wyndaele, Dirk N. Arends, Albert J. Diagnostics (Basel) Article Rationale: To formally determine the repeatability of Ga-68 PSMA lesion uptake in both relapsing and metastatic tumor. In addition, it was hypothesized that the BPL algorithm Q. Clear has the ability to lower SUV signal variability in the small lesions typically encountered in Ga-68 PSMA PET imaging of prostate cancer. Methods: Patients with biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer were prospectively enrolled in this single center pilot test-retest study and underwent two Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT scans within 7.9 days on average. Lesions were classified as suspected local recurrence, lymph node metastases or bone metastases. Two datasets were generated: one standard PSF + OSEM and one with PSF + BPL reconstruction algorithm. For tumor lesions, SUVmax was determined. Repeatability was formally assessed using Bland–Altman analysis for both BPL and standard reconstruction. Results: A total number of 65 PSMA-positive tumor lesions were found in 23 patients (range 1 to 12 lesions a patient). Overall repeatability in the 65 lesions was −1.5% ± 22.7% (SD) on standard reconstructions and −2.1% ± 29.1% (SD) on BPL reconstructions. Ga-68 PSMA SUVmax had upper and lower limits of agreement of +42.9% and −45.9% for standard reconstructions and +55.0% and −59.1% for BPL reconstructions, respectively (NS). Tumor SUVmax repeatability was dependent on lesion area, with smaller lesions exhibiting poorer repeatability on both standard and BPL reconstructions (F-test, p < 0.0001). Conclusion: A minimum response of 50% seems appropriate in this clinical situation. This is more than the recommended 30% for other radiotracers and clinical situations (PERCIST response criteria). BPL does not seem to lower signal variability in these cases. MDPI 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8233885/ /pubmed/34208531 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11061100 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rijnsdorp, Sjoerd
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Wyndaele, Dirk N.
Arends, Albert J.
Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms
title Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms
title_full Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms
title_fullStr Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms
title_short Evaluation of Quantitative Ga-68 PSMA PET/CT Repeatability of Recurrent Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Both OSEM and Bayesian Penalized Likelihood Reconstruction Algorithms
title_sort evaluation of quantitative ga-68 psma pet/ct repeatability of recurrent prostate cancer lesions using both osem and bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction algorithms
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34208531
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11061100
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