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How to assess background activity: introducing a histogram-based analysis as a first step for accurate one-step PET quantification.

Abstract：

:Many common PET segmentation methods for malignant lesions use surrounding background activity as a reference. To date, background has to be measured by drawing a second volume of interest (VOI) in nearby, undiseased tissue. This is time consuming as two VOIs have to be determined for each lesion. The aim of our study was to analyse whether background activity in different organs and body regions could be calculated from the tumour VOI by histogram analyses. The institutional review board waived informed consent for this retrospective study. For each of the following tumour types and areas - head and neck (neck), lung, hepatic metastasis (liver), melanoma (skin), and cervix (pelvis) - 10 consecutive patients with biopsy-proven tumours who underwent (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET in January 2012 were retrospectively selected. One lesion was selected and two readers drew a cubical VOI around the lesion (VOItumour) and over the background (VOIBG). The mean value of VOIBG was compared with the mode of the histogram, using equivalence testing with an equivalence margin of ±0.5 SUV. Inter-reader agreement was analysed for the mean background, and the mode of the VOItumour histogram was assessed using the concordance correlation coefficient. For both readers, the mode of VOItumour was equivalent to the mean of VOIBG (P<0.0001 for R1 and R2). The inter-reader agreement was almost perfect, with a concordance correlation coefficient of greater than 0.92 for both the mode of VOItumour and the mean of VOIBG. Background activity determined within a tumour VOI using histogram analysis is equivalent to separately measured mean background values, with an almost perfect inter-reader agreement. This could facilitate PET quantification methods based on background values without increasing workload.

journal_name

Nucl Med Commun

journal_title

Nuclear medicine communications

authors

Burger IA,Vargas HA,Beattie BJ,Goldman DA,Zheng J,Larson SM,Humm JL,Schmidtlein CR

doi

10.1097/MNM.0000000000000045

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-03-01 00:00:00

pages

316-24

issue

eissn

0143-3636

issn

1473-5628

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How to assess background activity: introducing a histogram-based analysis as a first step for accurate one-step PET quantification.