Comparison of Amino Acid PET to Advanced and Emerging MRI Techniques for Neurooncology Imaging: A Systematic Review of the Recent Studies

dc.contributor.authorStopa, Brittany M.en
dc.contributor.authorJuhász, Csabaen
dc.contributor.authorMittal, Sandeepen
dc.contributor.departmentFralin Biomedical Research Instituteen
dc.contributor.departmentVirginia Tech Carilion School of Medicineen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-25T12:44:41Zen
dc.date.available2021-01-25T12:44:41Zen
dc.date.issued2021-01-20en
dc.date.updated2021-01-24T08:00:21Zen
dc.description.abstractIntroduction. Standard neuroimaging protocols for brain tumors have well-known limitations. The clinical use of additional modalities including amino acid PET (aaPET) and advanced MRI (aMRI) techniques (including DWI, PWI, and MRS) is emerging in response to the need for more accurate detection of brain tumors. In this systematic review of the past 2 years of the literature, we discuss the most recent studies that directly compare or combine aaPET and aMRI for brain tumor imaging. Methods. A PubMed search was conducted for human studies incorporating both aaPET and aMRI and published between July 2018 and August 2020. Results. A total of 22 studies were found in the study period. Recent studies of aaPET with DWI showed a superiority of MET, FET, FDOPA, and AMT PET for detecting tumor, predicting recurrence, diagnosing progression, and predicting survival. Combining modalities further improved performance. Comparisons of aaPET with PWI showed mixed results about spatial correlation. However, both modalities were able to detect high-grade tumors, identify tumor recurrence, differentiate recurrence from treatment effects, and predict survival. aaPET performed better on these measures than PWI, but when combined, they had the strongest results. Studies of aaPET with MRS demonstrated that both modalities have diagnostic potential but MET PET and FDOPA PET performed better than MRS. MRS suffered from some data quality issues that limited analysis in two studies, and, in one study that combined modalities, overall performance actually decreased. Four recent studies compared aaPET with emerging MRI approaches (such as CEST imaging, MR fingerprinting, and SISTINA), but the initial results remain inconclusive. Conclusions. aaPET outperformed the aMRI imaging techniques in most recent studies. DWI and PWI added meaningful complementary data, and the combination of aaPET with aMRI yielded the best results in most studies.en
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dc.identifier.citationBrittany M. Stopa, Csaba Juhász, and Sandeep Mittal, “Comparison of Amino Acid PET to Advanced and Emerging MRI Techniques for Neurooncology Imaging: A Systematic Review of the Recent Studies,” Molecular Imaging, vol. 2021, Article ID 8874078, 19 pages, 2021. doi:10.1155/2021/8874078en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8874078en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/102037en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherHindawien
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2021 Brittany M. Stopa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
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dc.titleComparison of Amino Acid PET to Advanced and Emerging MRI Techniques for Neurooncology Imaging: A Systematic Review of the Recent Studiesen
dc.title.serialMolecular Imagingen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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