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Uncertainty Analysis of Time-Integrated Activity Coefficient in Single-Time-Point Dosimetry Using Bayesian Fitting
Achmad Faturrahman Jundi1,2, M Dlorifun Naqiyyun3, Bisma Barron Patrianesha1,4
1Medical Physics and Biophysics, Physics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Indonesia, Depok, 16424 Indonesia.
Purpose:
Calculation of the uncertainty of the individual time-integrated activity coefficient (TIACs) is desirable in molecular radiotherapy. However, the calculation of TIAC's uncertainty in single-time-point (STP) method has never been reported in the literature. This study presents a method based on the Bayesian fitting (BF) to calculate the standard deviation (SD) of individual TIACs in the STP dosimetry.
Methods:
Biokinetic data of 177Lu-DOTATATE in kidneys were obtained from PMID33443063. BF methods with extended objective function, which optimize the fitting using prior knowledge of the function's parameters, were used. Reference TIACs (rTIACs) were calculated by fitting a mono-exponential function to the all-time-point data. The goodness of fit was checked based on the visual inspection and the coefficient of variations (CV) of the fitted parameters < 0.5. BF with relative (BFr) and absolute-based (BFa) variance methods were used to obtain the calculated TIACs (cTIACs) from the STP dosimetry. Performance of the STP method was obtained by calculating the relative deviation (RD) between cTIACs and rTIACs.
Results:
Visual inspection showed a good fit for all patients with CV of fitted parameters less than 50%. The mean ± SD of cTIAC's %RD were 7.0 ± 25.2 for BFr and 2.6 ± 8.9 for BFa. The range of %CV of the individual cTIAC's SD for BFr and BFa methods was 36-78% and 22-33%, respectively, while the %CV of the rTIAC SD was 0.8-49%.
Conclusion:
We introduce the BF method to calculate the SD of individual TIACs in STP dosimetry. The presented method might be used as an alternative method for uncertainty analysis in STP dosimetry.
Supplementary Information:
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13139-024-00851-8.
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