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Published in: EJNMMI Research 1/2015

Open Access 01-12-2015 | Original research

Heterogeneity of intratumoral 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan and 18F-FDG distribution in association with therapeutic response in radioimmunotherapy for B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Authors: Kohei Hanaoka, Makoto Hosono, Yoichi Tatsumi, Kazunari Ishii, Sung-Woon Im, Norio Tsuchiya, Kenta Sakaguchi, Itaru Matsumura

Published in: EJNMMI Research | Issue 1/2015

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Abstract

Background

The purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate the tumor accumulation and heterogeneity of 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin®) and tumor accumulation of 18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) and compare them to the tumor response in B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients receiving 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin®) therapy.

Methods

Sixteen patients with histologically confirmed non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma who underwent 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan therapy along with 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT)/CT and FDG positron emission tomography (PET)/CT were enrolled in this retrospective study. On pretherapeutic FDG PET/CT images, the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) was measured. On SPECT/CT images, a percentage of the injected dose per gram (%ID/g) and SUVmax of 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan were measured at 48 h after its administration. The skewness and kurtosis of the voxel distribution were calculated to evaluate the intratumoral heterogeneity of tumor accumulation. As another intratumoral heterogeneity index, cumulative SUV-volume histograms describing the percentage of the total tumor volume above the percentage thresholds of pretherapeutic FDG and 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan SUVmax (area under the curve of the cumulative SUV histograms (AUC-CSH)) were calculated. All lesions (n = 42) were classified into responders and non-responders lesion-by-lesion on pre- and post-therapeutic CT images.

Results

A positive correlation was observed between the FDG SUVmax and accumulation of 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan in lesions. A significant difference in pretherapeutic FDG SUVmax was observed between responders and non-responders, while no significant difference in 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan SUVmax was observed between the two groups. In contrast, voxel distribution of FDG demonstrated no significant differences in the three heterogeneity indices between responders and non-responders, while 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan demonstrated skewness of 0.58 ± 0.16 and 0.73 ± 0.24 (p < 0.05), kurtosis of 2.39 ± 0.32 and 2.78 ± 0.53 (p < 0.02), and AUC-CSH of 0.37 ± 0.04 and 0.34 ± 0.05 (p < 0.05) for responders and non-responders.

Conclusions

Pretherapeutic FDG accumulation was predictive of the tumor response in 90Y-ibritumomab tiuxetan therapy. The heterogeneity of the intratumoral distribution rather than the absolute level of 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan was correlated with the tumor response.
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Metadata
Title
Heterogeneity of intratumoral 111In-ibritumomab tiuxetan and 18F-FDG distribution in association with therapeutic response in radioimmunotherapy for B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Authors
Kohei Hanaoka
Makoto Hosono
Yoichi Tatsumi
Kazunari Ishii
Sung-Woon Im
Norio Tsuchiya
Kenta Sakaguchi
Itaru Matsumura
Publication date
01-12-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
EJNMMI Research / Issue 1/2015
Electronic ISSN: 2191-219X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-015-0093-3

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