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  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Medical Imaging
  • Radiochemistry

Background:

  • Standardized uptake values (SUVs) in PET/CT are crucial for quantitative analysis.
  • Current SUV calculation methods, based on body weight (BW) or empirical lean body mass (LBM), exhibit significant variability.
  • Reducing SUV variability is essential for accurate patient assessment in heterogeneous populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce novel methods (CT1, CT2) for calculating SUVs using routinely acquired CT data.
  • Evaluate the variability of SUVs derived from CT-based lean mass estimation.
  • Compare the performance of CT-based methods against traditional BW and LBM methods for SUV calculation.

Main Methods:

  • Segmented CT images from 252 cancer patients into lean tissue, fat, and bone.
  • Developed CT1 (naive extrapolation) and CT2 (modeled FDG uptake) methods to estimate lean mass from CT Hounsfield Units.
  • Calculated hepatic SUVs for all patients using BW, LBM, CT1, and CT2 methods, assessing variability (CV) across different BMI cohorts.

Main Results:

  • The SUV based on BW method showed significant dependence on body weight.
  • Coefficients of variation (CVs) were 18.0% (BW), 15.5% (LBM), 15.9% (CT1), and 14.9% (CT2).
  • CT2 method demonstrated the closest agreement in mean SUV between obese and lean patients, with minimal impact from missing CT data.

Conclusions:

  • Novel CT1 and CT2 methods offer reduced SUV variability compared to the BW method.
  • CT-based SUV calculation methods are comparable in performance to the LBM method.
  • These CT-based approaches are robust even with incomplete CT data, enhancing SUV reliability.