Comparison of the Uptake of Hepatocellular Carcinoma on Pre-Therapeutic MDCT, CACT, and SPECT/CT, and the Correlation with Post-Therapeutic PET/CT in Patients Undergoing Selective Internal Radiation Therapy

Autor: Nils Kretschmann, Thomas Werncke, Frank Wacker, Lena S Becker, Thomas Brunkhorst, Arndt Vogel, Timo C Meine, Bernhard C. Meyer, Cornelia L A Dewald, Christian Schütze, Martha M. Kirstein, Sabine K Maschke, Jan B. Hinrichs
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
PET/CT
positron emission tomography/computed tomography
liver
selective internal radiation therapy
Article
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
Liver tissue
Medicine
In patient
SIRT
HCC
PET-CT
Y90
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Selective internal radiation therapy
selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT)
MDCT
CACT
General Medicine
hepatocellular carcinoma
multi-detector computed tomography
SPECT/CT
medicine.disease
single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT)
Yttrium90 (Y90)
Positron emission tomography
Hepatocellular carcinoma
positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)
Yttrium90
Curative surgery
multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT)
business
Nuclear medicine
single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography
C-arm computed tomography (CACT)
Emission computed tomography
C-arm computed tomography
Zdroj: Journal of Clinical Medicine
Volume 10
Issue 17
Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 10, Iss 3837, p 3837 (2021)
ISSN: 2077-0383
DOI: 10.3390/jcm10173837
Popis: (1) Background: To comparatively analyze the uptake of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) on pre-therapeutic imaging modalities, the arterial phase multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT), the parenchymal phase C-arm computed tomography (CACT), the Technetium99m-macroaggregates of human serum albumin single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT), and the correlation to the post-therapeutic Yttrium90 positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in patients with selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT). (2) Methods: Between September 2013 and December 2016, 104 SIRT procedures were performed at our institution in 74 patients with HCC not suitable for curative surgery or ablation. Twenty-two patients underwent an identical sequence of pre-therapeutic MDCT, CACT, SPECT/CT, and post-therapeutic PET/CT with a standardized diagnostic and therapeutic protocol. In these 22 patients, 25 SIRT procedures were evaluated. The uptake of the HCC was assessed using tumor-background ratio (TBR). Therefore, regions of interest were placed on the tumor and the adjacent liver tissue on MDCT (TBRMDCT), CACT (TBRCACT), SPECT/CT (TBRSPECT/CT), and PET/CT (TBRPET/CT). Comparisons were made with the Friedman test and the Nemenyi post-hoc test. Correlations were analyzed using Spearman’s Rho and the Benjamini–Hochberg method. The level of significance was p <
0.05. (3) Results: TBR on MDCT (1.4 ± 0.3) was significantly smaller than on CACT (1.9 ± 0.6) and both were significantly smaller compared to SPECT/CT (4.6 ± 2.0) (pFriedman-Test <
0.001
pTBRMDCT/TBRCACT = 0.012, pTBRMDCT/TBRSPECT/CT <
0.001, pTBRCACT/TBRSPECT/CT <
0.001). There was no significant correlation of TBR on MDCT with PET/CT (rTBRMDCT/TBRPET/CT = 0.116
p = 0.534). In contrast, TBR on CACT correlated to TBR on SPECT/CT (rTBRCACT/TBRSPECT/CT = 0.489
p = 0.004) and tended to correlate to TBR on PET/CT (rTBRCACT/TBRPET/CT =0.365
p = 0.043). TBR on SPECT/CT correlated to TBR on PET/CT (rTBRSPECT/CT/TBRPET/CT= 0.706
p <
0.001) (4) Conclusion: The uptake assessment on CACT was in agreement with SPECT/CT and might be consistent with PET/CT. In contrast, MDCT was not comparable to CACT and SPECT/CT, and had no correlation with PET/CT due to the different application techniques. This emphasizes the value of the CACT, which has the potential to improve the dosimetric assessment of the tumor and liver uptake for SIRT.
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