• Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging · Sep 2014

    Comparative Study

    Detection of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET) using semi-quantitative [68Ga]DOTATOC PET in combination with multiphase contrast-enhanced CT.

    • V Froeling, R Röttgen, F Collettini, J Rothe, B Hamm, W Brenner, and N Schreiter.
    • Department of Radiology Charité Medical University, Berlin, Germany - Nils.Schreiter@charite.de.
    • Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2014 Sep 1; 58 (3): 310-8.

    AimPancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) pose a diagnostic challenge with respect to the physiologic somatostatin receptor expression in the uncinate process representing a potential pitfall for receptor imaging with PET/CT.MethodsWe identified 49 PNETs from a total of 316 consecutive [68Ga]DOTATOC PET/CT examinations for whom the detections rates of PET and multiphase contrast enhanced (CE-) CT could be retrospectively compared and 38 PNETs for which SUVmax and SUVmax target-to-liver ratios could be calculated for the tumors and the uncinate process.ResultsThe detection rate of PET (83.7%) was higher than of the different CT phases (arterial: 59.2%, P=0.017; portal-venous: 38.8%, P<0.001; venous: 46.9%, P=0.001; multiphase: 71.4%, P=0.286). Compared to the other method PET revealed 28.6% additional lesions and multiphase CE-CT 16.3%. The portal-venous phase revealed only lesions that were also detected in the arterial or venous phase. The detection rate for PNETs in the uncinate process (N.=9) was 66.7% for PET versus 55.6% for multiphase CE-CT. SUVmax and SUVmax target-to-liver ratios differed significantly (P<0.001) for PNETs (mean, range: SUVmax, 14.6, 1.4-69.3; SUVmax target-to-liver ratio, 3.2, 0.69-23.1) and uncinate process (4.32, 0.8-13.5; 0.94, 0.51-1.56), however with a wide overlap.ConclusionPatients with PNETs should undergo [68Ga]DOTATOC PET/CT with at least an arterial and venous phase CT scan. SUVmax and SUVmax target-to-liver ratios provide additional information but do no reliably separate PNETs from normal tracer uptake in the uncinate process.

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