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Quantitative Autoradiography of Biopsy Specimens Extracted Under PET/CT Guidance
L Fanchon1*, S Carlin1, I Burger2 , C Schmidtlein1, J Humm1, E Yorke1, S Solomon1, J Deasy1, A Kirov1**, (1) Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, (2) University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich,
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MO-G-17A-9 Monday 4:30PM - 6:00PM Room: 17APurpose:
To develop a procedure for accurate determination of PET tracer concentration with high spatial accuracy in situ by performing Quantitative Autoradiography of Biopsy Specimens (QABS) extracted under PET/CT guidance.
Methods:
Autoradiography (ARG) standards were produced from a gel loaded with a known concentration of FDG biopsied with 18G and 20G biopsy needles. Specimens obtained with these needles are generally cylindrical: up to 18 mm in length and about 0.8 and 0.6 mm in diameter respectively. These standards, with similar shape and density as biopsy specimens were used to generate ARG calibration curves.
Quantitative ARG was performed to measure the activity concentration in biopsy specimens extracted from ten patients. The biopsy sites were determined according to PET/CT's obtained in the operating room. Additional CT scans were acquired with the needles in place to confirm correct needle placements. The ARG images were aligned with the needle tip in the PET/CT images using the open source CERR software. The mean SUV calculated from the specimen activities (SUVarg) were compared to that from PET (SUVpet) at the needle locations.
Results:
Calibration curves show that the relation between ARG signal and activity concentration in those standards is linear for the investigated range (up to 150 kBq/ml). The correlation coefficient of SUVarg with SUVpet is 0.74. Discrepancies between SUVarg and SUVpet can be attributed to the small size of the biopsy specimens compared to PET resolution.
Conclusion:
The calibration procedure using surrogate biopsy specimens provided a method for quantifying the activity within the biopsy cores obtained under FDG-PET guidance. QABS allows mapping the activity concentration in such biopsy specimens with a resolution of about 1mm. QABS is a promising tool for verification of biopsy adequacy by comparing specimen activity to that expected from the PET image.
Funding Support, Disclosures, and Conflict of Interest: A portion of this research was funded by a research grant from Biospace Lab, 13 rue Georges Auric 75019 Paris, FRANCE.
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