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  • Medical imaging
  • Pharmacokinetics

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  • Nuclear medicine dosimetry often estimates pharmacokinetics from limited temporal data.
  • Transitioning to 3D image-based dosimetry requires efficient, reproducible data interpolation and extrapolation.
  • Iterative solvers are computationally intensive and prone to local minima for this task.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a fully analytical method for solving three-phase exponential time-activity curves using minimal data points.
  • To create an efficient and reproducible algorithm for image-based dosimetry tools.
  • To enable automated data handling in 3D dosimetry calculations.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a piecewise analytical algorithm to solve tri-exponential time-activity curves directly from three measured time points.
  • Algorithm utilizes conditional statements for direct slope calculation.
  • Validated against iterative fitting and linear piecewise methods in ten patients receiving 177Lu-DOTA-Octreotate therapy.

Main Results:

  • The analytical tri-exponential method yielded comparable time-integrated values to existing methods (9.8 ± 14.2% and -3.6 ± 10.4% difference vs. iterative and interpolated methods, respectively).
  • Demonstrated high consistency at both voxel and whole-organ levels.
  • Enabled computation of 3D time-integrated activity maps in under 5 minutes for whole-body SPECT imaging.
  • Showed robustness in handling noisy or misaligned data.

Conclusions:

  • An efficient analytical algorithm for multiphase exponential pharmacokinetics has been developed.
  • The method is suitable for integration into voxel-dose calculation routines.
  • Combines readily with existing image registration and radiation transport tools for practical application.