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Published in: EJNMMI Research 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Original research

Optimization of diagnostic performance for differentiation of recurrence from radiation necrosis in patients with metastatic brain tumors using tumor volume-corrected 11C-methionine uptake

Authors: Tae-Young Jung, In-Young Kim, Sa-Hoe Lim, Ki Seong Park, Dong-Yeon Kim, Shin Jung, Kyung-Sub Moon, Woo-Youl Jang, Sae-Ryung Kang, Sang-Geon Cho, Jung-Joon Min, Hee-Seung Bom, Seong Young Kwon

Published in: EJNMMI Research | Issue 1/2017

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Abstract

Background

Tumor to normal tissue ratio (T/N ratio) on 11C-methionine (11C-MET) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is affected by variable factors. We investigated whether T/N ratio cutoff values corrected according to metabolic tumor volume (MTV) could improve the diagnostic performance of 11C-MET PET/CT for diagnosis of recurrence in patients with metastatic brain tumor.
Forty-eight patients with metastatic brain tumors underwent 11C-MET PET/CT for differential diagnosis between recurrence and radiation necrosis after gamma knife radiosurgery (GKR). Both T/N ratio and MTV were estimated in each lesion on 11C-MET PET/CT. The lesions were classified into three groups based on MTV criteria (≤ 0.5 cm3; > 0.5, ≤ 4.0 cm3; and > 4.0 cm3). The optimal cutoff values of the T/N ratio from receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve were determined in each group (MTV-corrected) as well as total lesions (non-corrected). Finally, diagnostic performance of 11C-MET PET/CT was compared with the MTV-corrected cutoff values.

Results

Among 77 lesions, 51 were diagnosed with recurrence. The mean T/N ratio was 2.25 (± 1.12) for recurrent lesions and 1.44 (± 0.22) for radiation necrosis (P < 0.001). T/N ratio of 1.61 (non-corrected) provided the best sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy (70.6, 80.8, and 74.0%, respectively). Using the MTV criteria, optimal cutoff values of the T/N ratios in each group were 1.23 (MTV ≤ 0.5 cm3), 1.54 (0.5 cm3 < MTV ≤ 4.0 cm3), and 1.85 (MTV > 4.0 cm3). In small-sized lesions (MTV ≤ 0.5 cm3), MTV-corrected cutoff values (1.23) could maintain favorable diagnostic performance with sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy (70.0, 80.0, and 73.3%, respectively), compared to non-corrected cutoff values.

Conclusions

MTV-corrected cutoff values of T/N ratio could maintain the diagnostic performance of 11C-MET PET/CT in small sized, metastatic brain tumors. We expect our results to contribute to reproducible and standardized interpretation of 11C-MET PET/CT.
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Metadata
Title
Optimization of diagnostic performance for differentiation of recurrence from radiation necrosis in patients with metastatic brain tumors using tumor volume-corrected 11C-methionine uptake
Authors
Tae-Young Jung
In-Young Kim
Sa-Hoe Lim
Ki Seong Park
Dong-Yeon Kim
Shin Jung
Kyung-Sub Moon
Woo-Youl Jang
Sae-Ryung Kang
Sang-Geon Cho
Jung-Joon Min
Hee-Seung Bom
Seong Young Kwon
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
EJNMMI Research / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 2191-219X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13550-017-0293-0

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