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Comparative Study
. 2021 Feb 1;46(2):111-118.
doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003412.

Clinical Assessment of 177Lu-DOTATATE Quantification by Comparison of SUV-Based Parameters Measured on Both Post-PRRT SPECT/CT and 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT in Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Feasibility Study

Philippe Thuillier, Meriem Maajem  1 , Ulrike Schick  2 , Frédérique Blanc-Beguin, Simon Hennebicq, Jean-Philippe Metges  3 , Pierre-Yves Salaun, Véronique Kerlan, David Bourhis, Ronan Abgral
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Comparative Study

Clinical Assessment of 177Lu-DOTATATE Quantification by Comparison of SUV-Based Parameters Measured on Both Post-PRRT SPECT/CT and 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT in Patients With Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Feasibility Study

Philippe Thuillier et al. Clin Nucl Med. .

Abstract

Patients and methods: Patients with WD-GEP-NET who benefited from a pretherapeutic 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT and a 177Lu-DOTATATE SPECT/CT after the cycle 1 of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy were prospectively included. SPECT/CT acquisitions were performed on a system calibrated with a conversion factor of 9.48 counts/MBq per second and were reconstructed with an iterative algorithm allowing quantification using the SPECTRA Quant software (MIM Software, Cleveland, OH). For each patient, different SUV parameters were recorded on both PET/CT (Ga parameters) and SPECT/CT (Lu parameters) for comparison: physiological uptakes (liver/spleen), tumor uptake (1-10/patient; SUVmax, SUVmean, SUVpeak, MTV), tumor-to-liver and tumor-to-spleen ratios according to liver/spleen SUVmax and SUVmean (TLRmax, TLRmean, TSRmax, and TSRmean, respectively).

Results: Ten patients (8 female; 2 male) aged from 50 to 83 years presenting with a metastatic progressive WD-GEP-NET (7 small intestine, 2 pancreas, 1 rectum) were included. Median values of lesional Lu-SUV were significantly lower than the corresponding Ga-SUV (P < 0.001), whereas median values of lesional Lu-MTV, Lu-TLR, and Lu-TSR were significantly higher than the corresponding Ga-MTV, Ga-TLR, and Ga-TSR (P < 0.02). Pearson correlation coefficients were strong for both SUV and MTV parameters (0.779-0.845), weak for TLR parameters (0.365-0.394), and moderate-to-strong for TSR parameters (0.676-0.750).

Conclusions: Our results suggest the feasibility of 177Lu-DOTATATE SPECT/CT quantification in clinical practice and show a strong correlation of several SUV-based parameters with the corresponding in 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT.

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Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: none declared.

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