Test-retest Assessment of Biventricular Myocardial Oxidative Metabolism and Perfusion in Pulmonary Hypertension Patients Using ¹¹C-acetate PET Imaging: A Pilot Study.

IF 3 4区医学 Q2 RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING

Molecular Imaging and Biology Pub Date : 2025-02-12 DOI:10.1007/s11307-025-01987-5

Ali Ahmadi, Ran Klein, David Gao, Lisa M Mielniczuk, Jason G E Zelt, Kevin E Boczar, Rob S Beanlands, Paco E Bravo, Yuchi Han, Marcelo F Di Carli, Robert A deKemp

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Abstract

Purpose: ¹¹C-acetate PET is used to measure biventricular oxygen myocardial consumption rate (MVO₂) and myocardial blood flow (MBF) changes associated with right ventricular (RV) remodelling. We studied PET reproducibility and repeatability for such RV assessments.

Procedures: 10 pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients underwent ¹¹C-acetate PET. Five of these patients also had a repeat scan after 26 ± 2 weeks. A one-tissue compartment model was used to measure the myocardial tissue-activity washout rate (k2 [1/min] for MVO₂ estimation) and the blood-to-tissue activity flux (K1 [1/min] for MBF calculation). Values were measured by 2 blinded observers and analyzed by ANOVA and Bland-Altman tests. The interquartile ranges (IQR), within-subject coefficients of variation (wCV), and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were reported.

Results: All patients had stable PH with the clinical assessments showed comparable biventricular function and size between baseline and follow-up. The k2-derived MVO₂ and K1-derived MBF values were consistently higher in the LV than RV. The high inter- and intra-observer reproducibility (for biventricular MVO₂ and MBF) was indicated by low IQR (≤ 7.6%) and wCV (≤ 8%) as well as high ICC (≥ 95%). The test-retest (baseline to follow-up) repeatability showed larger IQR (≤ 35.4%) and wCV (≤ 29%) but consistently high ICC (= 95%).

Conclusions: MVO₂ and MBF values measured in the RV of patients with PH were highly reproducible and repeatable. This can help inform the design of clinical research studies using serial ¹¹C-acetate PET imaging to evaluate RV metabolism.

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Molecular Imaging and Biology 医学-核医学

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