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JOURNAL OF COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY
Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 460-465Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e318182d2e0
Keywords
perfusion CT; O-15-labeled water PET; tumor blood flow
Funding
- United States Public Health [U01 CA62461, U54 CA90810, CCSG CA16672.]
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Objectives: To compare blood flow measurements of tumors assessed by perfusion computed tomography (pCT) and the clinical gold standard of O-15-labeled water positron emission tomography (O-15-PET). Methods: Blood flows were estimated by pCT (4-row multidetector, CT Perfusion 3.1) and O-15-PET (Posicam, first-pass model) in 14 patients with solid tumors, totaling 22 index tumors and 57 matched pairs of examinations. Blood flow estimates were compared using I test, Bland-Altman, and linear mixed regression analyses. Results: There was no significant difference between the mean (SD) blood flow values measured by pCT and O-15-PET: 25.9 +/- 15.4 and 27.8 +/- 14.0 mL/min per 100 g, respectively. Conclusions: The demonstration of a good correlation between pCT and O-15-PET potentially enables the use of pCT, which is more widely available than O-15-PET, when tumor blood flow estimates are required, particularly in the context of clinical studies.
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