Left ventricle function assessment using gated first-pass 18F-FDG PET: Validation against equilibrium radionuclide angiography. 2021

Fayçal Ben Bouallègue, and Laurent Maïmoun, and Florentin Kucharczak, and Pierre Le Fur, and Fabien Vauchot, and Boramy Hay, and Eric Rondet, and Denis Mariano-Goulart
Nuclear Medicine Department, Lapeyronie University Hospital, Avenue du Doyen Giraud 371, 34295, Montpellier Cedex 5, France. faycal.ben-bouallegue@umontpellier.fr.

We appraised the feasibility of left ventricle (LV) function assessment using gated first-pass 18F-FDG PET, and assessed the concordance of the produced measurements with equilibrium radionuclide angiography (ERNA). Twenty-four oncologic patients benefited from 99mTc-labeled red-blood-cell ERNA, in planar mode (all patients) and using SPECT (22 patients). All patients underwent gated first-pass 18F-FDG cardiac PET. Gated dynamic PET images were reconstructed over 1 minute during tracer first-pass inside the LV and post-processed using in-house software (TomPool). After re-orientation into cardiac canonical axes and adjustment of the valves plane using a phase image, pseudo-planar PET images obtained by re-projection were automatically segmented using thresholded region growing and gradient-based delineation to produce an LV ejection fraction (EF) estimate. PET images were also post-processed in fully-tomographic mode to produce LV end diastole volume (EDV), end systole volume (ESV), and EF estimates. Concordance was assessed using Lin's concordance (ccc) and Bland-Altman analysis. Reproducibility was assessed using the coefficient of variation (CoV) and intra-class correlation (ICC). Pseudo-planar PET EF estimates were concordant with planar ERNA (ccc = 0.81, P < .001) with a bias of 0% (95% CI [- 2%; 3%], limits of agreement [- 11%; 12%]). Reproducibility was excellent and similar for both methods (CoV = 2 ± 1% and 3 ± 2%, P = NS; ICC = 0.97 and 0.92, for PET and ERNA, respectively). Measurements obtained in fully-tomographic mode were concordant with SPECT ERNA: ccc = 0.83 and bias = - 3 mL for LV EDV, ccc = 0.92 and bias = 0 mL for LV ESV, ccc = 0.89 and bias = - 1% for LV EF (all P values < .001 for ccc, all biases not significant). Gated first-pass 18F-FDG PET might stand as a relevant alternative to ERNA for LV function assessment, enabling a joint evaluation of both therapeutic response and cardiac toxicity in oncologic patients receiving cardiotoxic chemotherapy.

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