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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Nuclear Medicine Année : 2016

Multi atlas-based attenuation correction for brain FDG- PET imaging using a TOF-PET/MR scanner: Comparison with clinical single atlas- and CT-based attenuation correction

Tetsuro Sekine
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Ninon Burgos
Geoffrey Warnock
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Martin Huellner
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Alfred Buck
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Edwin E. G. W. Ter Voert
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Brian F. Hutton
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Patrick Veit-Haibach
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Gaspar Delso
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Résumé

In this work, we assessed the feasibility of attenuation correction (AC) based on a multi-atlas–based method (m-Atlas) by comparing it with a clinical AC method (single-atlas–based method [s-Atlas]), on a time-of-flight (TOF) PET/MRI scanner. Methods: We enrolled 15 patients. The median patient age was 59 y (age range, 31–80). All patients underwent clinically indicated whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT for staging, restaging, or follow-up of malignant disease. All patients volunteered for an additional PET/MRI scan of the head (no additional tracer being injected). For each patient, 3 AC maps were generated. Both s-Atlas and m-Atlas AC maps were generated from the same patient-specific LAVA-Flex T1-weighted images being acquired by default on the PET/MRI scanner during the first 18 s of the PET scan. An s-Atlas AC map was extracted by the PET/MRI scanner, and an m-Atlas AC map was created using a Web service tool that automatically generates m-Atlas pseudo-CT images. For comparison, the AC map generated by PET/CT was registered and used as a gold standard. PET images were reconstructed from raw data on the TOF PET/MRI scanner using each AC map. All PET images were normalized to the SPM5 PET template, and 18F-FDG accumulation was quantified in 67 volumes of interest (VOIs; automated anatomic labeling atlas). Relative (%diff) and absolute differences (\textbar%diff\textbar) between images based on each atlas AC and CT-AC were calculated. 18F-FDG uptake in all VOIs and generalized merged VOIs were compared using the paired t test and Bland–Altman test. Results: The range of error on m-Atlas in all 1,005 VOIs was −4.99% to 4.09%. The \textbar%diff\textbar on the m-Atlas was improved by about 20% compared with s-Atlas (s-Atlas vs. m-Atlas: 1.49% ± 1.06% vs. 1.21% ± 0.89%, P \textless 0.01). In generalized VOIs, %diff on m-Atlas in the temporal lobe and cerebellum was significantly smaller (s-Atlas vs. m-Atlas: temporal lobe, 1.49% ± 1.37% vs. −0.37% ± 1.41%, P \textless 0.01; cerebellum, 1.55% ± 1.97% vs. −1.15% ± 1.72%, P \textless 0.01). Conclusion: The errors introduced using either s-Atlas or m-Atlas did not exceed 5% in any brain region investigated. When compared with the clinical s-Atlas, m-Atlas is more accurate, especially in regions close to the skull base.

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hal-01827202 , version 1 (01-07-2018)

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Tetsuro Sekine, Ninon Burgos, Geoffrey Warnock, Martin Huellner, Alfred Buck, et al.. Multi atlas-based attenuation correction for brain FDG- PET imaging using a TOF-PET/MR scanner: Comparison with clinical single atlas- and CT-based attenuation correction. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2016, 57 (8), pp.1258--1264. ⟨10.2967/jnumed.115.169045⟩. ⟨hal-01827202⟩
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