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Patient motion minimally impacts brain PET studies using blood-based image-derived input functions (IDIFs). This robustness is crucial for accurate kinetic modeling in neurological imaging, even with motion artifacts.

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  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Neuroimaging
  • Medical Physics

Background:

  • Image-derived input function (IDIF) from carotid arteries offers an alternative to arterial blood sampling for brain PET studies.
  • Previous research indicated blood-free IDIFs are sensitive to patient motion.
  • This study evaluates the robustness of blood-based IDIFs against motion artifacts using simulated and clinical data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of patient motion on the accuracy of blood-based image-derived input function (IDIF) estimation in brain PET studies.
  • To determine the robustness of IDIFs and subsequent kinetic modeling (Logan-VT) under various motion conditions.
  • To compare motion-corrected and uncorrected data in both simulated and clinical settings.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized analytical simulations with a numerical phantom and high-resolution research tomograph to model translational and rotational motion.
  • Assessed motion impact on dynamic PET scans from three healthy volunteers, with and without online motion correction.
  • Compared IDIFs and Logan-distribution volume (VT) values derived from motion-affected scans against motion-corrected references.

Main Results:

  • Phantom studies showed significant AUC differences in carotid time-activity curves with motion (up to 66% for translation).
  • Final blood-fitted IDIFs exhibited smaller AUC differences (up to 11% for rotation, 8% for translation).
  • Logan-VT errors were generally below 10%, with a maximum of 18% at 20 mm translation; clinical scans showed minor errors (<10%).

Conclusions:

  • Patient motion has a minimal effect on IDIF estimation when using a blood-based normalization method.
  • Kinetic modeling in neurological PET studies remains largely unaffected by motion artifacts with this approach.
  • The blood-based IDIF method demonstrates sufficient robustness for clinical application in brain PET imaging.