Kim Gehling, Theresa Mokry, Thuy Duong Do, Frederik Lars Giesel, Sascha Dietrich, Uwe Haberkorn, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Tim Frederik Weber
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Abstract
Purpose: In patients with malignant lymphoma, disease activity is recommended to be assessed by FDG-PET/CT and the Deauville five-point scale (5-PS). The purpose of this study was to explore the potential of iodine concentration measured in contrast-enhanced dual-layer spectral detector CT (SDCT) as an alternative surrogate parameter for lymphoma disease activity by investigating its correlation with maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) and 5-PS.
Materials and methods: 25 patients were retrospectively analyzed. Contrast-enhanced SDCT and FDG-PET/CT were performed in the same treatment interval within at most 3 months. CT attenuation values (AV), absolute iodine concentrations (aIC), and normalized iodine concentrations (nIC) of lymphoma lesions were correlated with SUVmax using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The performance of aIC and nIC to detect lymphoma activity (defined as 5-PS > 3) was determined using ROC curves.
Results: 60 lesions were analyzed, and 31 lesions were considered active. AV, aIC, and nIC all correlated significantly with SUVmax. The strongest correlation (Spearman ρ = 0.71; p < 0.001) and highest area under the ROC curve (AUROC) for detecting lymphoma activity were observed for nIC normalized to inferior vena cava enhancement (AUROC = 0.866). The latter provided sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of 87 %, 75 %, and 80 %, respectively, at a threshold of 0.20. ROC analysis for AV (AUROC = 0.834) and aIC (AUROC = 0.853) yielded similar results.
Conclusion: In malignant lymphomas, there is a significant correlation between metabolic activity as assessed by FDG-PET/CT and iodine concentration as assessed by SDCT. Iodine concentration shows promising diagnostic performance for detecting lymphoma activity and may represent a potential imaging biomarker.
Key points: · Iodine concentration correlates significantly with SUVmax in lymphoma patients. · Iodine concentration may represent a potential imaging biomarker for detecting lymphoma activity. · Normalization of iodine concentration improves diagnostic performance of iodine concentration.
Citation format: · Gehling K, Mokry T, Do TD et al. Dual-Layer Spectral Detector CT in Comparison with FDG-PET/CT for the Assessment of Lymphoma Activity. Fortschr Röntgenstr 2022; 194: 747 - 754.
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