% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Ceccon:825818, author = {Ceccon, Garry and Lohmann, Philipp and Stoffels, Gabriele and Judov, Natalie and Filss, Christian and Rapp, Marion and Bauer, Elena and Hamisch, Christina and Ruge, Maximilian I. and Kocher, Martin and Kuchelmeister, Klaus and Sellhaus, Bernd and Sabel, Michael and Fink, Gereon R. and Shah, Nadim J. and Langen, Karl-Josef and Galldiks, Norbert}, title = {{D}ynamic {O} -(2-$^{18}$ {F}-fluoroethyl)-{L}-tyrosine positron emission tomography differentiates brain metastasis recurrence from radiation injury after radiotherapy}, journal = {Neuro-Oncology}, volume = {19}, number = {2}, issn = {1523-5866}, address = {Oxford}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, reportid = {FZJ-2017-00120}, pages = {281-288}, year = {2017}, abstract = {BackgroundThe aim of this study was to investigate the potential of dynamic O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (18F-FET) PET for differentiating local recurrent brain metastasis from radiation injury after radiotherapy since contrast-enhanced MRI often remains inconclusive.MethodsSixty-two patients (mean age, 55 ± 11 y) with single or multiple contrast-enhancing brain lesions (n = 76) on MRI after radiotherapy of brain metastases (predominantly stereotactic radiosurgery) were investigated with dynamic 18F-FET PET. Maximum and mean tumor-to-brain ratios (TBRmax, TBRmean) of 18F-FET uptake were determined (20–40 min postinjection) as well as tracer uptake kinetics (ie, time-to-peak and slope of time-activity curves). Diagnoses were confirmed histologically $(34\%;$ 26 lesions in 25 patients) or by clinical follow-up $(66\%;$ 50 lesions in 37 patients). Diagnostic accuracies of PET parameters for the correct identification of recurrent brain metastasis were evaluated by receiver-operating-characteristic analyses or the chi-square test.ResultsTBRs were significantly higher in recurrent metastases (n = 36) than in radiation injuries (n = 40) (TBRmax 3.3 ± 1.0 vs 2.2 ± 0.4, P < .001; TBRmean 2.2 ± 0.4 vs 1.7 ± 0.3, P < .001). The highest accuracy $(88\%)$ for diagnosing local recurrent metastasis could be obtained with TBRs in combination with the slope of time-activity curves (P < .001).ConclusionsThe results of this study confirm previous preliminary observations that the combined evaluation of the TBRs of 18F-FET uptake and the slope of time-activity curves can differentiate local brain metastasis recurrence from radiation-induced changes with high accuracy. 18F-FET PET may thus contribute significantly to the management of patients with brain metastases.}, cin = {INM-3 / INM-4 / JARA-BRAIN}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-3-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-4-20090406 / $I:(DE-82)080010_20140620$}, pnm = {573 - Neuroimaging (POF3-573)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-573}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, UT = {WOS:000397280500015}, pubmed = {pmid:27471107}, doi = {10.1093/neuonc/now149}, url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/825818}, }