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Floeth, F. W.FZJ* ; Sabel, M. ; Ewelt, C. ; Stummer, W. ; Felsberg, J. ; Reifenberger, G. ; Steiger, H. J. ; Stoffels, G.FZJ* ; Coenen, H. H.FZJ* ; Langen, K. J.FZJ*

2011
Springer-Verl. Heidelberg [u.a.]

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Abstract: The aim of the study was to compare presurgical (18)F-fluoroethyl-L: -tyrosine ((18)F-FET) uptake and Gd-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) enhancement on MRI (Gd) with intraoperative 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) fluorescence in cerebral gliomas.(18)F-FET positron emission tomography (PET) was performed in 30 patients with brain lesions suggestive of diffuse WHO grade II or III gliomas on MRI. PET and MRI data were coregistered to guide neuronavigated biopsies before resection. After oral application of 5-ALA, 38 neuronavigated biopsies were taken from predefined tumour areas that were positive or negative for (18)F-FET or Gd and checked for 5-ALA fluorescence. (18)F-FET uptake with a mean tumour to brain ratio ≥1.6 was rated as positive.Of 38 biopsies, 21 corresponded to high-grade glioma tissue (HGG) of WHO grade III (n = 19) or IV (n = 2) and 17 biopsies to low-grade glioma tissue (LGG) of WHO grade II. In biopsies corresponding to HGG, (18)F-FET PET was positive in 86% (18/21), but 5-ALA and Gd in only 57% (12/21). A mismatch between Gd and 5-ALA was observed in 6 of 21 cases of HGG biopsy samples (3 Gd-positive/5-ALA-negative and 3 Gd-negative/5-ALA-positive). In biopsies corresponding to LGG, (18)F-FET was positive in 41% (7/17), while 5-ALA and Gd were negative in all but one instance. All tumour areas with 5-ALA fluorescence were positive on (18)F-FET PET.There are differences between (18)F-FET and 5-ALA uptake in cerebral gliomas owing to a limited sensitivity of 5-ALA to detect tumour tissue especially in LGG. (18)F-FET PET is more sensitive to detect glioma tissue than 5-ALA fluorescence and should be considered as an additional tool in resection planning.

Keyword(s): Adult (MeSH) ; Aged (MeSH) ; Aminolevulinic Acid: metabolism (MeSH) ; Blood-Brain Barrier: metabolism (MeSH) ; Brain Neoplasms: metabolism (MeSH) ; Brain Neoplasms: pathology (MeSH) ; Brain Neoplasms: radionuclide imaging (MeSH) ; Female (MeSH) ; Gadolinium DTPA: diagnostic use (MeSH) ; Glioma: metabolism (MeSH) ; Glioma: pathology (MeSH) ; Glioma: radionuclide imaging (MeSH) ; Humans (MeSH) ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MeSH) ; Male (MeSH) ; Middle Aged (MeSH) ; Positron-Emission Tomography (MeSH) ; Spectrometry, Fluorescence (MeSH) ; Tyrosine: analogs & derivatives (MeSH) ; Tyrosine: diagnostic use (MeSH) ; (18F)fluoroethyltyrosine ; Aminolevulinic Acid ; Tyrosine ; Gadolinium DTPA ; J ; Cerebral glioma (auto) ; Amino acid PET (auto) ; [F-18] Fluoroethyl-L-tyrosine (F-18-FET) (auto) ; 5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) (auto) ; Fluorescence-guided resection (auto) ; Gd-DTPA enhancement (auto)

Note: The authors wish to thank Suzanne Schaden and Elisabeth Theelen for assistance in the PET studies; Silke Grafmuller, Erika Wabbals and Sascha Rehbein for radiosynthesis of <SUP>18</SUP>F-FET. This work was supported by the Brain Imaging Center West (BICW).

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Physik der Medizinischen Bildgebung (INM-4)
2. Nuklearchemie (INM-5)

Research Program(s):

1. Neurowissenschaften (L01)

Appears in the scientific report 2011

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