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  • 1Division of Nuclear Medicine, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. mlodge1@jhmi.edu

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Area of Science:

  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Oncology Imaging
  • Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Monitoring

Background:

  • Standardized uptake value (SUV) metrics, particularly SUVmax, are crucial for monitoring tumor response in (18)F-FDG PET studies.
  • Concerns exist regarding the impact of image noise on the reliability of single-pixel SUVmax measurements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the bias and reproducibility of SUVmax and SUVpeak in (18)F-FDG PET imaging.
  • To assess the influence of image noise and scan duration on these quantitative metrics in a realistic clinical context.

Main Methods:

  • List-mode 3D PET data were acquired from 20 oncology patients undergoing (18)F-FDG PET scans.
  • Respiration-gated and ungated images of varying durations (1-5 min) were reconstructed to simulate different statistical qualities.
  • SUVmax and SUVpeak were analyzed for bias and reproducibility using patient data.

Main Results:

  • SUVmax exhibited higher within-patient variability (5.6% SD) compared to SUVpeak (2.5% SD).
  • SUVmax showed significant positive bias, especially in shorter scan durations (e.g., 30% bias at 1 min), decreasing with longer scans.
  • SUVpeak also demonstrated bias, but to a lesser extent than SUVmax across all scan durations.

Conclusions:

  • SUVmax is most reliable with high-quality PET images (high statistical content).
  • For typical clinical whole-body (18)F-FDG PET studies with inherent noise, SUVpeak provides a more robust and reproducible metric for assessing tumor metabolic activity.
  • SUVpeak is recommended as a more stable alternative to SUVmax for tumor response assessment in noisy imaging conditions.