Optimization of attenuation and scatter corrections in sentinel lymph node scintigraphy using SPECT/CT systems

• Yoneyama, Hiroto

• Tsushima, Hiroyuki

• Onoguchi, Masahisa

• Konishi, Takahiro

• Nakajima, Kenichi

• Matsuo, Shinro

• Kayano, Daiki

• Wakabayashi, Hiroshi

• Inaki, Anri

• Kinuya, Seigo

抄録

Objective: Although SPECT/CT systems have been used for sentinel lymph node (SLN) imaging, few studies have focused on optimization of attenuation correction (AC) and scatter correction (SC). While SLNs could be detected in conventional planar images, they sometimes do not appear in SPECT/CT images. The purpose of this study was to investigate the optimal AC and SC and to improve the detectability of SLNs in examinations using SPECT/CT systems. Materials and methods: The study group consisted of 56 female patients with breast cancer. In SPECT/CT imaging, four kinds of images were created with and without AC and SC; namely, AC−SC−, AC+SC−, AC−SC+ and AC+SC+. Five nuclear medicine physicians interpreted the planar and SPECT/CT images with five grades of confidence levels (1–5). The detection rate was calculated as the number of patients whose average confidence levels of interpretation were more than 4, divided by the total number of patients. Results: The confidence level of interpretation and the detection rate provided by the planar images were 4.76±0.49 and 94.6%, respectively. In SPECT/CT imaging, the AC+SC− provided the best detection rate (confidence level of interpretation, 4.81±0.38; detection rate, 98.2%), followed by the AC−SC− (4.70±0.55, 89.3%), and the AC−SC+ (4.39±1.2, 78.6%). The lowest values were obtained for the AC+SC+ (4.36±1.22, 78.6%). Regarding the confidence levels of interpretation, significant differences were observed between AC+SC− and AC−SC−, AC+SC− and AC+SC+, AC+SC− and AC−SC+, and between planar images and AC+SC+ (P=0.0021, 0.0009, 0.0013, and 0.0056, respectively). Conclusions: When SPECT/CT was used, AC improved the detection of SLNs. SC caused disappearance of a faint SLN in some cases and should not be performed. © 2014, The Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine.

収録刊行物

• Annals of Nuclear Medicine

  Annals of Nuclear Medicine 29 (3), 248-255, 2015-04-01

  The Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine = 日本核医学会 / Springer-Verlag Tokyo

キーワード

• Attenuation correction
• Breast cancer
• Scatter correction
• Sentinel lymph node
• SPECT/CT

詳細情報

• CRID: 1050282810960642176
• NII論文ID: 120005661932
• NII書誌ID: AA10708017
• ISSN: 09147187
• ISSN: 18646433
• DOI: 10.1007/s12149-014-0939-1
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/43422
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/2297/40603
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12149-014-0939-1.pdf
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12149-014-0939-1/fulltext.html
• Web Site: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12149-014-0939-1
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2015386346
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: journal article
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