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@ARTICLE{Freitag:125848,
author = {M. Freitag$^*$ and J. P. Radtke$^*$ and B. A. Hadaschik and
A. Kopp-Schneider$^*$ and M. Eder$^*$ and K. Kopka$^*$ and
U. Haberkorn$^*$ and M. Röthke$^*$ and H.-P. Schlemmer$^*$
and A. Afshar-Oromieh$^*$},
title = {{C}omparison of hybrid (68){G}a-{PSMA} {PET}/{MRI} and
(68){G}a-{PSMA} {PET}/{CT} in the evaluation of lymph node
and bone metastases of prostate cancer.},
journal = {European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging},
volume = {43},
number = {1},
issn = {1619-7089},
address = {Heidelberg [u.a.]},
publisher = {Springer-Verl.},
reportid = {DKFZ-2017-01972},
pages = {70 - 83},
year = {2016},
abstract = {To evaluate the reproducibility of the combination of
hybrid PET/MRI and the (68)Ga-PSMA-11 tracer in depicting
lymph node (LN) and bone metastases of prostate cancer (PC)
in comparison with that of PET/CT.A retrospective analysis
of 26 patients who were subjected to (68)Ga-PSMA
PET/CTlow-dose (1 h after injection) followed by PET/MRI
(3 h after injection) was performed. MRI sequences included
T1-w native, T1-w contrast-enhanced, T2-w fat-saturated and
diffusion-weighted sequences (DWIb800). Discordant
PET-positive and morphological findings were evaluated.
Standardized uptake values (SUV) of PET-positive LNs and
bone lesions were quantified and their morphological size
and conspicuity determined.Comparing the PET components, the
proportion of discordant PSMA-positive suspicious findings
was very low $(98.5 \%$ of 64 LNs concordant, $100 \%$ of
28 bone lesions concordant). Two PET-positive bone
metastases could not be confirmed morphologically using
CTlow-dose, but could be confirmed using MRI. In 12 of 20
patients, 47 PET-positive LNs $(71.9 \%)$ were smaller than
1 cm in short axis diameter. There were significant linear
correlations between PET/MRI SUVs and PET/CT SUVs in the 64
LN metastases (p < 0.0001) and in the 28 osseous
metastases (p < 0.0001) for SUVmean and SUVmax,
respectively. The LN SUVs were significantly higher on
PET/MRI than on PET/CT (p SUVmax < 0.0001; p
SUVmean < 0.0001) but there was no significant
difference between the bone lesion SUVs (p
SUVmax = 0.495; p SUVmean = 0.381). Visibility of
LNs was significantly higher on MRI using the T1-w
contrast-enhanced fat-saturated sequence (p = 0.013),
the T2-w fat-saturated sequence (p < 0.0001) and the DWI
sequence (p < 0.0001) compared with CTlow-dose. For bone
lesions, only the overall conspicuity was higher on MRI
compared with CTlow-dose (p < 0.006).Nodal and osseous
metastases of PC are accurately and reliably depicted by
hybrid PET/MRI using (68)Ga-PSMA-11 with very low
discordance compared with PET/CT including PET-positive LNs
of normal size. The correlation between PET/MRI SUVs and
PET/CT SUVs was linear in LN and bone metastases but was
significantly lower in control (non-metastatic) tissue.},
keywords = {Glu-NH-CO-NH-Lys-(Ahx)-((68)Ga(HBED-CC)) (NLM Chemicals) /
Oligopeptides (NLM Chemicals) / Edetic Acid (NLM Chemicals)},
cin = {E010 / C060 / E030},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E010-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)C060-20160331 /
I:(DE-He78)E030-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Imaging and radiooncology (POF3-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:26508290},
doi = {10.1007/s00259-015-3206-3},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/125848},
}