The Utility of a 3-Dimensional, Large-Field-Of-View, Sodium Iodide Crystal–Based PET Scanner in the Presurgical Evaluation of Partial Epilepsy

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Michael Murphy¹  David S. Binns¹  Mark J. Cook¹  Terence J. O’Brien¹  Robert Ware¹  Rodney J. Hicks¹ 

[1] Australian Center for Clinical Neuropharmacology and Victorian Epilepsy Centres, St. Vincent’s, Royal Melbourne, and Alfred Hospitals, Fitzroy, Victoria; and Center for Positron Emission, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia Australian Center for Clinical Neuropharmacology and Victorian Epilepsy Centres, St. Vincent’s, Royal Melbourne, and Alfred Hospitals, Fitzroy, Victoria; and Center for Positron Emission, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia Australian Center for Clinical Neuropharmacology and Victorian Epilepsy Centres, St. Vincent’s, Royal Melbourne, and Alfred Hospitals, Fitzroy, Victoria; and Center for Positron Emission, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

关键词: FDG PET;    sodium iodide crystal;    MRI;    epilepsy surgery;   

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学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Society of Nuclear Medicine

【 摘 要 】

18F-FDG PET is an accurate and reliable technique for localizing medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy, but widespread use has been hindered by limited reimbursement in many countries because of the high cost of traditional PET equipment and radioisotopes. Additionally, the place of FDG PET as a cost-effective tool for presurgical evaluation of epilepsy has been questioned because of limited data showing that FDG PET provides localization information incremental to that provided by more established techniques, particularly MRI and ictal electroencephalography (EEG). Three-dimensional (3D), large-field-of-view, sodium iodide crystal–based scanners have lower equipment and running costs and better multiplanar resolution than traditional 2-dimensional bismuth germanate (BGO) systems but have not yet been validated for evaluation of epilepsy. Our purpose was to investigate the localization rate, accuracy, and prognostic value of FDG PET images acquired on a 3D, large-field-of-view, sodium iodide crystal–based PET scanner in the presurgical evaluation of intractable partial epilepsy. We also wanted to establish the incremental value of FDG PET over established MRI and ictal EEG techniques. Methods: Fifty-five patients who were surgical candidates because of medically refractory partial epilepsy were examined. For most of these patients, the lesions had not been clearly localized on conventional assessment. The FDG PET scans were reviewed independently by 2 reviewers who were unaware of the patients’ clinical details, ictal EEG findings, and volumetric MRI results, and the FDG PET results were correlated with those of MRI and EEG and with postsurgical outcome. Results: Forty-two patients (76%) had localizing FDG PET images (37 temporal, 5 extratemporal). The ictal EEG recordings were localizing in 66%, and the MRI findings were localizing in 27% (which increased to 35% after the MRI findings were reviewed again after PET). Concordance between the site of the PET localizations and the site of the MRI or EEG localizations was 100%. The PET images were localizing in 63% and 69% of patients with nonlocalizing ictal EEG and MRI findings, respectively. Twenty-one of 24 patients who subsequently underwent epilepsy surgery had localizing FDG PET images; of these 21 patients, 18 (86%) had a class I outcome. Multiple regression analysis showed the FDG PET results to be predictive of postsurgical outcome independently of the MRI findings. Conclusion: For intractable partial epilepsy, FDG PET using a 3D, large-field-of-view, sodium iodide crystal–based scanner provided clinically useful localizing information that was at least as accurate as the results reported for traditional BGO-based scanners. The PET images provided prognostically significant localization information incremental to that provided by volumetric MRI and ictal EEG, particularly if 1 of these studies was nonlocalizing.

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