The significance of partial volume effect on the estimation of hypoxic tumour volume with [18F]FMISO PET/CT
Abstract: Background
The purpose of this study was to evaluate how a retrospective correction of the partial volume effect (PVE) in [18F]fluoromisonidazole (FMISO) PET imaging, affects the hypoxia discoverability within a gross tumour volume (GTV). This method is based on recovery coefficients (RC) and is tailored for low-contrast tracers such as FMISO. The first stage was the generation of the scanner’s RC curves, using spheres with diameters from 10 to 37 mm, and the same homogeneous activity concentration, positioned in lower activity concentration background. Six sphere-to-background contrast ratios were used, from 10.0:1, down to 2.0:1, in order to investigate the dependence of RC on both the volume and the contrast ratio. The second stage was to validate the recovery-coefficient correction method in a more complex environment of non-spherical lesions of different volumes and inhomogeneous activity concentration. Finally, we applied the correction method to a clinical dataset derived from a prospective imaging trial (DRKS00003830): forty nine head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cases who had undergone FMISO PET/CT scanning for the quantification of tumour hypoxia before (W0), 2 weeks (W2) and 5 weeks (W5) after the beginning of radiotherapy. Here, PVE was found to cause an underestimation of the activity in small volumes with high FMISO signal.
Results
The application of the proposed correction method resulted in a statistically significant increase of both the hypoxic subvolume (171% at W0, 691% at W2 and 4.60 × 103% at W5 with p < 0.001) and the FMISO standardised uptake value (SUV) (27% at W0, 21% at W2 and by 25% at W5 with p < 0.001) within the primary GTV.
Conclusions
The proposed PVE-correction method resulted in a statistically significant increase of the hypoxic fraction (HF) with p < 0.001 and demonstrated results in better agreement with published HF data for HNSCC. To summarise, the proposed RC-based correction method can be a useful tool for a retrospective compensation against PVE
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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EJNMMI Physics. - 11, 1 (2024) , 43, ISSN: 2197-7364
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Veröffentlichung
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Freiburg
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Universität
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2024
- Urheber
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Kafkaletos, Athanasios
Mix, Michael
Sachpazidis, Ilias
Carles, Montserrat
Rühle, Alexander
Ruf, Juri
Grosu, Anca-Ligia
Nicolay, Nils
Baltas, Dimos
- DOI
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10.1186/s40658-024-00643-1
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2488114
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:46 MEZ
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Beteiligte
- Kafkaletos, Athanasios
- Mix, Michael
- Sachpazidis, Ilias
- Carles, Montserrat
- Rühle, Alexander
- Ruf, Juri
- Grosu, Anca-Ligia
- Nicolay, Nils
- Baltas, Dimos
- Universität
Entstanden
- 2024
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