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  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Neuroimaging
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Technetium-99m hexamethyl-propyleneamine oxime ((99m)Tc-HMPAO) is a brain perfusion tracer.
  • Underestimation of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) is a known limitation of (99m)Tc-HMPAO.
  • Lassen's linearization algorithm was developed to correct for tracer back-diffusion, with an initial alpha (α) value of 1.5.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of statistical noise on the robustness of Lassen's linearization algorithm for (99m)Tc-HMPAO.
  • To evaluate the proposed new alpha (α) value of 0.5 for Lassen's correction algorithm.
  • To determine the clinical utility of different alpha (α) values in brain perfusion imaging.

Main Methods:

  • In silico addition of statistical noise to tracer counts.
  • Application of Lassen's linearization algorithm with varying alpha (α) values to corrected data.
  • Analysis of the correlation coefficient and noise levels at different flow values.

Main Results:

  • Smaller alpha (α) values (stronger correction) were found to increase noise at high flow rates.
  • This increase in noise led to a nominal increase in the correlation coefficient as alpha (α) decreased.
  • The study confirmed the hypothesis that statistical noise contributes to the stable correlation coefficient observed with varying alpha (α) values.

Conclusions:

  • The robustness of the correlation coefficient in previous studies may be attributed to statistical noise.
  • Adopting a smaller alpha (α) value of 0.5 is clinically beneficial for enhancing contrast between low-flow and high-flow brain regions.
  • The proposed alpha (α) value of 0.5 offers improved diagnostic potential in (99m)Tc-HMPAO brain perfusion imaging.