| Literature DB >> 30442754 |
Alan Miranda1, Dorien Glorie1, Daniele Bertoglio1, Jochen Vleugels2, Guido De Bruyne2, Sigrid Stroobants1,3, Steven Staelens1, Jeroen Verhaeghe4.
Abstract
PET scans of the mouse brain are usually performed with anesthesia to immobilize the animal. However, it is desirable to avoid the confounding factor of anesthesia in mouse-brain response.Entities:
Keywords: PET; animal behavior; motion correction; mouse brain; neurology; positron emission tomography
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30442754 PMCID: PMC6581220 DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.118.218669
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Nucl Med ISSN: 0161-5505 Impact factor: 10.057
FIGURE 1.(A) Holder (top cover removed) in which mouse was placed during acquisitions. (B) Mouse with fixed point sources, indicated by arrows. (C) Mouse inside holder during PET acquisition.
FIGURE 2.Scanning protocol for anesthetized and awake animals for test, retest, and memantine-challenge conditions. i.p. = intraperitoneal; PS = point sources; blue = anesthesia; orange = no anesthesia.
FIGURE 3.Scatterplot of SUV for different brain regions in test, retest, and memantine-challenge conditions for both anesthetized and awake groups. *P < 0.05. **P < 0.01. ***P < 0.001. ****P < 0.0001. CX = cortex; CP = caudate putamen; THA = thalamus; HC = hippocampus; CB = cerebellum.
Mean Regional SUV and Coefficient of Variation for Different Conditions in Anesthetized and Awake Animals
| SUV | Coefficient of variation (%) | |||||
| Brain region | Test | Retest | Memantine | Test | Retest | Memantine |
| Anesthetized | ||||||
| Cortex | 2.51 | 2.70 | 3.32 | 11.8 | 14.8 | 16.7 |
| Caudate putamen | 3.08 | 3.36 | 4.34 | 11.4 | 14.7 | 16.2 |
| Thalamus | 3.50 | 3.81 | 4.08 | 12.2 | 14.4 | 17.3 |
| Hippocampus | 2.90 | 3.18 | 4.01 | 11.4 | 14.7 | 17.4 |
| Cerebellum | 2.81 | 3.16 | 3.41 | 13.5 | 16.6 | 17.3 |
| Awake | ||||||
| Cortex | 2.10 | 2.06 | 3.38 | 13.8 | 15.3 | 16.0 |
| Caudate putamen | 2.57 | 2.50 | 4.29 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 16.0 |
| Thalamus | 2.81 | 2.79 | 4.33 | 13.8 | 15.6 | 15.0 |
| Hippocampus | 2.45 | 2.41 | 4.24 | 13.3 | 15.8 | 15.6 |
| Cerebellum | 2.27 | 2.25 | 3.56 | 14.9 | 16.6 | 14.8 |
Intraclass Correlation Coefficient and Bland–Altman Bias and Bias SD for Test–Retest Comparison of Regional Brain SUV in Anesthetized and Awake Animals
| Brain region | Intraclass correlation coefficient | Bias (%) | Bias SD |
| Anesthetized | |||
| Cortex | 0.629 | −6.94 | 5.90 |
| Caudate putamen | 0.553 | −8.25 | 5.94 |
| Thalamus | 0.580 | −8.15 | 5.35 |
| Hippocampus | 0.505 | −8.81 | 7.39 |
| Cerebellum | 0.491 | −11.4 | 6.48 |
| Awake | |||
| Cortex | 0.488 | 0.90 | 20.0 |
| Caudate putamen | 0.481 | 2.34 | 18.6 |
| Thalamus | 0.424 | −0.04 | 19.2 |
| Hippocampus | 0.555 | 0.43 | 19.4 |
| Cerebellum | 0.444 | −0.53 | 21.4 |
FIGURE 4.Anesthetized-mouse and awake-mouse images for a single mouse and averaged over all mice from each group. MRI template images are included as anatomic reference. Test–retest and memantine-challenge conditions are displayed for each group. Image values are normalized to whole-brain uptake for visualization purposes. SUVr = SUV ratio.
FIGURE 5.Slopes of linear least-squares fit to time–activity curves for anesthetized and awake groups in test and memantine-challenge conditions. *P < 0.05. ***P < 0.001. ****P < 0.0001. CX = cortex; CP = caudate putamen; THA = thalamus; HC = hippocampus; CB = cerebellum.
FIGURE 6.Position histogram (heat map) on horizontal plane for 2 mice during test, retest, and memantine-challenge acquisitions. Logarithmic time color scale is in seconds. Platform limits are represented as white rectangle.