Naser Ahmadi1, Fereshteh Hajsadeghi, Mark Conneely, Mark Mingos, Rohit Arora, Matthew Budoff, Ramin Ebrahimi. 1. Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center, UCLA-School of Medicine, 11301 Wilshire Blvd, Cardiology Section, Los Angeles, CA 90073; Captain James Lovell Federal Health Care Center, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL. Electronic address: drnaserahmadi@gmail.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Adipose tissues (AT) are highly metabolically active complex endocrine organs and are classified into white (WAT) and brown AT (BAT) with proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory characteristics. The current study investigated the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) to quantitatively detect BAT and WAT based on Hounsfield unit (HU) threshold compared to standardized uptake values (SUVs) of corresponding AT with the use of positron emission tomography (PET). METHODS: One hundred twenty-four patients who underwent whole-body (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) PET/CT were studied. The SUVs and HUs of regions of BAT and WAT were measured and compared in these scans. The receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to detect the HU threshold values for the detection of BAT and WAT. RESULTS: The CT HU of BAT, with high (18)F-FDG uptake, was significantly higher compared to WAT (-67.1 ± 8.2 [-10 to -87] versus -93.5 ± 10.1 [-88 to -190], P = .0006). Generalized linear-regression models revealed that mean CT HU of BAT was 26.4 HU higher than that of WAT (P = .001). A strong agreement between CT HU and PET SUV in measuring metabolically active AT (r(2) = 0.81, P = .0001) was observed. The ROC curve showed that the optimal cutoff value of CT HU to detect BAT was HU ≥-87 with sensitivity of 83.3% and specificity of 100%, and the negative CT HU below -87 is highly specific for WAT. CONCLUSION: In our study, CT can accurately and quantitatively detect BAT and WAT based on CT HU threshold, which is -10 to -87 for BAT and -88 to -190 for WAT. Published by Elsevier Inc.
BACKGROUND: Adipose tissues (AT) are highly metabolically active complex endocrine organs and are classified into white (WAT) and brown AT (BAT) with proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory characteristics. The current study investigated the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) to quantitatively detect BAT and WAT based on Hounsfield unit (HU) threshold compared to standardized uptake values (SUVs) of corresponding AT with the use of positron emission tomography (PET). METHODS: One hundred twenty-four patients who underwent whole-body (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) PET/CT were studied. The SUVs and HUs of regions of BAT and WAT were measured and compared in these scans. The receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to detect the HU threshold values for the detection of BAT and WAT. RESULTS: The CT HU of BAT, with high (18)F-FDG uptake, was significantly higher compared to WAT (-67.1 ± 8.2 [-10 to -87] versus -93.5 ± 10.1 [-88 to -190], P = .0006). Generalized linear-regression models revealed that mean CT HU of BAT was 26.4 HU higher than that of WAT (P = .001). A strong agreement between CT HU and PET SUV in measuring metabolically active AT (r(2) = 0.81, P = .0001) was observed. The ROC curve showed that the optimal cutoff value of CT HU to detect BAT was HU ≥-87 with sensitivity of 83.3% and specificity of 100%, and the negative CT HU below -87 is highly specific for WAT. CONCLUSION: In our study, CT can accurately and quantitatively detect BAT and WAT based on CT HU threshold, which is -10 to -87 for BAT and -88 to -190 for WAT. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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Brown adipose tissue; Hounsfield units; computed tomography; positron emission tomography; standard uptake value; white adipose tissue
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