Feasibility of PET-enabled dual-energy CT imaging: First physical phantom and initial patient study results.

Autor: Zhu Y; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA. yszhu@ucdavis.edu., Li S; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA., Xie Z; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA., Leung EK; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA.; UIH America, Inc., 77054, Houston, TX, USA., Bayerlein R; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA., Omidvari N; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA., Abdelhafez YG; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA., Cherry SR; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA., Qi J; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA., Badawi RD; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA., Spencer BA; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Davis, 95616, Davis, CA, USA., Wang G; Department of Radiology, UC Davis Health, 95817, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging [Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging] 2024 Nov 16. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 16.
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-024-06975-5
Abstrakt: Purpose: Dual-energy (DE) CT enables material decomposition by using two different x-ray energies and may be combined with PET for improved multimodality imaging. However, this increases radiation dose and may require a hardware upgrade due to the added second x-ray CT scan. The recently proposed PET-enabled DECT method allows dual-energy imaging using a conventional PET/CT scanner without the need to change scanner hardware or increase radiation exposure. Here we demonstrate the first-time physical phantom and patient data evaluation of this method.
Methods: The PET-enabled DECT method reconstructs a gamma-ray CT (gCT) image at 511 keV from the time-of-flight PET data with the maximum-likelihood attenuation and activity (MLAA) approach and then combines this image with the low-energy x-ray CT images to form a dual-energy image pair for material decomposition. To improve the image quality of gCT, a kernel MLAA method was developed using the x-ray CT as a priori information. Here we developed a general open-source implementation for gCT reconstruction and used this implementation for the first real data validation using both physical phantom study and human-subject study. Results from PET-enabled DECT were compared using x-ray DECT as the reference. Further, we applied the PET-enabled DECT method in another patient study to evaluate bone lesions.
Results: Compared to the standard MLAA, results from the kernel MLAA showed significantly improved image quality. PET-enabled DECT with the kernel MLAA was able to generate fractional images that were comparable to the x-ray DECT, with high correlation coefficients for both the phantom study and human subject study (R > 0.99). The application study also indicates that PET-enabled DECT has potential to characterize bone lesions.
Conclusion: Results from this study have demonstrated the feasibility of this PET-enabled method for CT imaging and material decomposition. PET-enabled DECT shows promise to provide comparable results to x-ray DECT.
Competing Interests: Declarations Ethical approval All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study was approved by Institution Review Board at University of California, Davis (IRB#: 1374902). Consent to participate Informed consent was obtained from all participants enrolled in the study. Consent for publication Consent to publish has been received from all participants. Conflict of interest UC Davis has a revenue-sharing agreement with United Imaging Healthcare. No other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article exist.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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