- Title
- A novel semiautomated method for background activity and biological tumour volume definition to improve standardisation of ¹⁸F-FET PET imaging in glioblastoma
- Creator
- Brighi, Caterina; Puttick, Simon; Li, Shenpeng; Keall, Paul; Neville, Katherine; Waddington, David; Bourgeat, Pierrick; Gillman, Ashley; Fay, Michael
- Relation
- EJNMMI Phys Vol. 9, Issue 1, no. 9
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40658-022-00438-2
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Background: Multicentre clinical trials evaluating the role of ¹⁸F-Fluoroethyl-l-tyrosine (¹⁸F-FET) PET as a diagnostic biomarker in glioma management have highlighted a need for standardised methods of data analysis. ¹⁸F-FET uptake normalised against background in the contralateral brain is a standard imaging technique to delineate the biological tumour volume (BTV). Quantitative analysis of ¹⁸F-FET PET images requires a consistent and robust background activity. Currently, defining background activity involves the manual selection of an arbitrary region of interest, a process that is subject to large variability. This study aims to eliminate methodological errors in background activity definition through the introduction of a semiautomated method for region of interest selection. A new method for background activity definition, involving the semiautomated generation of mirror-image (MI) reference regions, was compared with the current state-of-the-art method, involving manually drawing crescent-shape (gCS) reference regions. The MI and gCS methods were tested by measuring values of background activity and resulting BTV of ¹⁸F-FET PET scans of ten patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme generated from inputs provided by seven readers. To assess intra-reader variability, each scan was evaluated six times by each reader. Intra- and inter-reader variability in background activity and BTV definition was assessed by means of coefficient of variation. Results: Compared to the gCS method, the MI method showed significantly lower intra- and inter-reader variability both in background activity and in BTV definition. Conclusions: The proposed semiautomated MI method minimises intra- and inter-reader variability, providing a valuable approach for standardisation of ¹⁸F-FET PET quantitative parameters. Trial registration ANZCTR, ACTRN12618001346268. Registered 9 August 2018, https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=374253
- Subject
- ¹⁸F-FET PET; glioma; PET imaging; method standardisation; background activity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1466077
- Identifier
- uon:47450
- Identifier
- ISSN:2197-7364
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2022. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Language
- eng
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