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Fast technetium-99m liver SPECT for evaluation of the pretreatment procedure for radioembolization dosimetry.

Abstract：

PURPOSE:The efficiency of radioembolization procedures could be greatly enhanced if results of the 99m Tc-MAA pretreatment procedure were immediately available in the interventional suite, enabling 1-day procedures as a result of direct estimation of the hepatic radiation dose and lung shunt fraction. This would, however, require a relatively fast, but still quantitative, SPECT procedure, which might be achieved with acquisition protocols using nonuniform durations of the projection images. METHODS:SPECT liver images of the 150-MBq 99m Tc-MAA pretreatment procedure were simulated for eight different lesion locations and two different lesion sizes using the digital XCAT phantom for both single- and dual-head scanning geometries with respective total acquisition times of 1, 2, 5, 10, and 30 min. Three nonuniform projection-time acquisition protocols ("half-circle SPECT (HCS)," "nonuniform SPECT (NUS) I," and "NUS II") for fast quantitative SPECT of the liver were designed and compared with the standard uniform projection-time protocol. Images were evaluated in terms of contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), activity recovery coefficient (ARC), tumor/non-tumor (T/N) activity concentration ratio, and lung shunt fraction (LSF) estimation. In addition, image quality was verified with a physical phantom experiment, reconstructed with both clinical and Monte Carlo-based reconstruction software. RESULTS:Simulations showed no substantial change in image quality and dosimetry by usage of a nonuniform projection-time acquisition protocol. Upon shortening acquisition times, CNR dropped, but ARC, T/N ratio, and LSF estimates were stable across all simulated acquisition times. Results of the physical phantom were in agreement with those of the simulations. CONCLUSION:Both uniform and nonuniform projection-time acquisition liver SPECT protocols yield accurate dosimetric metrics for radioembolization treatment planning in the interventional suite within 10 min, without compromising image quality. Consequently, fast quantitative SPECT of the liver in the interventional suite is feasible.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

van der Velden S,Dietze MMA,Viergever MA,de Jong HWAM

doi

10.1002/mp.13253

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-01-01 00:00:00

pages

345-355

issue

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

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Fast technetium-99m liver SPECT for evaluation of the pretreatment procedure for radioembolization dosimetry.