Evaluation of utility of asymmetric index for count-based oxygen extraction fraction on dual-tracer autoradiographic method for chronic unilateral brain infarction

• Published in: Annals of nuclear medicine Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 533 - 539
• Main Authors: Iwanishi, Katsuhiro, Watabe, Hiroshi, Fujisaki, Hiroshi, Hayashi, Takuya, Miyake, Yoshinori, Minato, Kotaro, Naganuma, Masaki, Uehara, Toshiyuki, Yokota, Chiaki, Moriwaki, Hiroshi, Kajimoto, Katsufumi, Fukushima, Kazuhito, Minematsu, Kazuo, Iida, Hidehiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japan Springer Japan 01-08-2009; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Autoradiography; Brain Infarction - diagnosis; Brain Infarction - diagnostic imaging; Brain Infarction - metabolism; Carbon Dioxide - administration & dosage; Carbon Dioxide - metabolism; Chronic Disease; Feasibility Studies; Female; Humans; Imaging; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Nuclear Medicine; Original Article; Oxygen Consumption; Oxygen Radioisotopes - administration & dosage; Oxygen Radioisotopes - metabolism; Positron-Emission Tomography; Radioactive Tracers; Radiology; Time Factors; Asymmetric index; Count-based method; Dual-tracer autoradiographic method; Oxygen extraction fraction
• ISSN: 0914-7187; 1864-6433
• DOI: 10.1007/s12149-009-0272-2

Objective
For diagnosing patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease, non-invasive count-based method with
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gas are sequentially administrated within short period. In this paper, we evaluated feasibility of the non-invasive count-based method with the DARG protocol.
Methods
Twenty-three patients [67.8 ± 9.9 (mean ± SD) years] with chronic unilateral brain infarction were examined by the use of measurements of asymmetric OEF elevation. As DARG protocol,
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gases were inhaled with 5-min interval and dynamic PET data were acquired for 8 min. Quantitative OEF (qOEF) image was computed with PET data and arterial input function. Ratio image of
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phases of PET data was computed as count-based OEF (cbOEF) image. The asymmetric indices (AI) of qOEF (qOEF-AI) and cbOEF (cbOEF-AI) were obtained from regions of interest symmetric placed on left and right sides of cerebral hemisphere. To optimize the summation time of PET data for the cbOEF image, qOEF and cbOEF images with various summation times were compared.
Results
Image quality of cbOEF image was better than that of qOEF image. The best correlation coefficient of 0.94 was obtained when the cbOEF image was calculated from 0 to 180 s of
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Conclusion
Using the appropriate summation time, we obtained the cbOEF image with good correlation with qOEF image, which suggests non-invasive cbOEF image can be used for evaluating the degree of misery perfusion in patients with chronic unilateral brain infarction. The count-based method with DARG protocol has a potential to dramatically reduce the examination time of
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