Thomas Krohn1,2, Anita Birmes3, Oliver H Winz3, Natascha I Drude3, Felix M Mottaghy3,4, Florian F Behrendt3,5, Frederik A Verburg3,6. 1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany. thomas.krohn@uniklinik-ulm.de. 2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ulm University, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, 89081, Ulm, Germany. thomas.krohn@uniklinik-ulm.de. 3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany. 4. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht UMC+, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 5. Radiology Institute "Aachen Land", Würselen, Germany. 6. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate whether the numbers of lymph node metastases and coeliac ganglia delineated on [68Ga]PSMA-HBED-CC PET/CT scans differ among datasets generated using different reconstruction algorithms. METHODS: Data were constructed using the BLOB-OS-TF, BLOB-OS and 3D-RAMLA algorithms. All reconstructions were assessed by two nuclear medicine physicians for the number of pelvic/paraaortal lymph node metastases as well the number of coeliac ganglia. Standardized uptake values (SUV) were also calculated in different regions. RESULTS: At least one [68Ga]PSMA-HBED-CC PET/CT-positive pelvic or paraaortal lymph node metastasis was found in 49 and 35 patients using the BLOB-OS-TF algorithm, in 42 and 33 patients using the BLOB-OS algorithm, and in 41 and 31 patients using the 3D-RAMLA algorithm, respectively, and a positive ganglion was found in 92, 59 and 24 of 100 patients using the three algorithms, respectively. Quantitatively, the SUVmean and SUVmax were significantly higher with the BLOB-OS algorithm than with either the BLOB-OS-TF or the 3D-RAMLA algorithm in all measured regions (p < 0.001 for all comparisons). The differences between the SUVs with the BLOB-OS-TF- and 3D-RAMLA algorithms were not significant in the aorta (SUVmean, p = 0.93; SUVmax, p = 0.97) but were significant in all other regions (p < 0.001 in all cases). The SUVmean ganglion/gluteus ratio was significantly higher with the BLOB-OS-TF algorithm than with either the BLOB-OS or the 3D-RAMLA algorithm and was significantly higher with the BLOB-OS than with the 3D-RAMLA algorithm (p < 0.001 in all cases). CONCLUSION: The results of [68Ga]PSMA-HBED-CC PET/CT are affected by the reconstruction algorithm used. The highest number of lesions and physiological structures will be visualized using a modern algorithm employing time-of-flight information.
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