Radiation Dosimetry in ¹⁷⁷Lu-PSMA-617 Therapy Using a Single Posttreatment SPECT/CT Scan: A Novel Methodology to Generate Time- and Tissue-Specific Dose Factors.

ABSTRACT: Calculation of radiation dosimetry in targeted nuclear medicine therapies is traditionally resource-intensive, requiring multiple posttherapy SPECT acquisitions. An alternative approach is to take advantage of existing pharmacokinetic data from these smaller cohorts to enable dose computation from a single posttreatment scan in a manner that may be applied to a much broader patient population. Methods: In this work, a technical description of simplified dose estimation is presented and applied to the assessment of ¹⁷⁷Lu-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-617 therapy for metastatic prostate cancer. By normalizing existing time-activity curves to a single measurement time, it is possible to calculate a mean and range of time-integrated activity values that relate to

SUBMITTER: Jackson PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7383083 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature