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Partial-volume correction increases estimated dopamine D2-like receptor binding potential and reduces adult age differences.

ABSTRACT: The relatively modest spatial resolution of positron emission tomography (PET) increases the likelihood of partial volume effects such that binding potential (BPND) may be underestimated. Given structural grey matter losses across adulthood, partial volume effects may be even more problematic in older age leading to overestimation of adult age differences. Here we examined the effects of partial volume correction (PVC) in two studies from different sites using different high-affinity D2-like radioligands (18 F-Fallypride, 11C-FLB457) and different PET camera resolutions (∼5 mm, 2.5 mm). Results across both data sets revealed that PVC increased estimated BPND and reduced, though did not eliminate, age effects on BPND. As expected, the effects of PVC were smaller in higher compared to lower resolution data. Analyses using uncorrected data that controlled for grey matter volume in each region of interest approximated PVC corrected data for some but not all regions. Overall, the findings suggest that PVC increases estimated BPND in general and reduces adult age differences especially when using lower resolution cameras. The findings suggest that the past 30 years of research on dopamine receptor availability, for which very few studies use PVC, may overestimate effects of aging on dopamine receptor availability.

SUBMITTER: Smith CT

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6498753 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Partial-volume correction increases estimated dopamine D2-like receptor binding potential and reduces adult age differences.

Smith Christopher T CT Crawford Jennifer L JL Dang Linh C LC Seaman Kendra L KL San Juan M Danica MD Vijay Aishwarya A Katz Daniel T DT Matuskey David D Cowan Ronald L RL Morris Evan D ED Zald David H DH Samanez-Larkin Gregory R GR

Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 20171101 5

The relatively modest spatial resolution of positron emission tomography (PET) increases the likelihood of partial volume effects such that binding potential (BP<sub>ND</sub>) may be underestimated. Given structural grey matter losses across adulthood, partial volume effects may be even more problematic in older age leading to overestimation of adult age differences. Here we examined the effects of partial volume correction (PVC) in two studies from different sites using different high-affinity ...[more]

PMID: 29090626

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Project description:BackgroundThe limited spatial resolution in SPECT images leads to partial volume effect (PVE), degrading the subsequent dosimetric accuracy. We aim to quantitatively evaluate PVE and partial volume corrections (PVC), i.e., recovery coefficient (RC)-PVC (RC-PVC), reblurred Van-Cittert (RVC) and iterative Yang (IY), in 177Lu-PSMA-617 SPECT images.MethodsWe employed a geometrical cylindrical phantom containing five spheres (diameters ranging from 20 to 40 mm) and 40 XCAT phantoms with various anatomical variations and activity distributions. SIMIND Monte Carlo code was used to generate realistic noisy projections. In the clinical study, sequential quantitative SPECT/CT imaging at 4 time-points post 177Lu-PSMA-617 injections were analyzed for 10 patients. Iterative statistical reconstruction methods were used for reconstruction with attenuation, scatter and geometrical collimator detector response corrections, followed by post-filters. The RC-curves were fit based on the geometrical phantom study and applied for XCAT phantom and clinical study in RC-PVC. Matched and 0.5-2.0 voxels (2.54-10.16 mm) mismatched sphere masks were deployed in IY. The coefficient of variation (CoV) was measured on a uniform background on the geometrical phantom. RCs of spheres and mean absolute activity error (MAE) of kidneys and tumors were evaluated in simulation data, while the activity difference was evaluated in clinical data before and after PVC.ResultsIn the simulation study, the spheres experienced significant PVE, i.e., 0.26 RC and 0.70 RC for the 20 mm and 40 mm spheres, respectively. RVC and IY improved the RC of the 20 mm sphere to 0.37 and 0.75 and RC of the 40 mm sphere to 0.96 and 1.04. Mismatch in mask increased the activity error for all spheres in IY. RVC increased noise and caused Gibbs ringing artifacts. For XCAT phantoms, both RVC and IY performed comparably and were superior to RC-PVC in reducing the MAE of the kidneys. However, IY and RC-PVC outperformed RVC for tumors. The XCAT phantom study and clinical study showed a similar trend in the kidney and tumor activity differences between non-PVC and PVC.ConclusionsPVE greatly impacts activity quantification, especially for small objects. All PVC methods improve the quantification accuracy in 177Lu-PSMA SPECT.

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Partial-volume correction increases estimated dopamine D2-like receptor binding potential and reduces adult age differences.

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Partial-volume correction increases estimated dopamine D2-like receptor binding potential and reduces adult age differences.

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