期刊
PHYSICS IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
卷 67, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ac46e0
关键词
dosimetry; radionuclide therapy; single-time-point dosimetry; uncertainty
资金
- Mrs Berta Kamprad's Foundation [FBKS 2019-44, BKS 2020-13293]
- Swedish Cancer Society [180 747]
- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at The Royal Marsden and the ICR
- NIHR Royal Marsden Clinical Research Facility Funding
This study examines the error distributions in patient-specific dosimetry for radionuclide therapy and investigates two methods for single-time-point dosimetry. The main finding is that the relative errors are negatively skewed, potentially leading to significant underestimations of the time-integrated activity (TIA).
Objective. This study considers the error distributions for time-integrated activity (TIA) of single-time-point (STP) methods for patient-specific dosimetry in radionuclide therapy. Approach. The general case with the same pharmaceutical labelled with different radionuclides for imaging and therapy are considered for a mono-exponential time-activity curve. Two methods for STP dosimetry, both based on the combination of one activity estimate with the population-mean effective decay constant, are investigated. The cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) and the probability density functions for the two methods are analytically derived for arbitrary distributions of the biological decay constant. The CDFs are used for determining 95% coverage intervals of the relative errors for different combinations of imaging time points, physical decay constants, and relative standard deviations of the biological decay constant. Two examples, in the form of kidney dosimetry in [Lu-177]Lu-DOTA-TATE therapy and tumour dosimetry for Na[I-131]I therapy for thyroid cancer with dosimetry based on imaging of Na[I-124]I, are also studied in more detail with analysis of the sensitivity with respect to errors in the mean biological decay constant and to higher moments of the distribution. Main results. The distributions of the relative errors are negatively skewed, potentially leading to the situation that some TIA estimates are highly underestimated even if the majority of estimates are close to the true value. Significance. The main limitation of the studied STP dosimetry methods is the risk of large underestimations of the TIA.
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