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Methods for Improving Quantitation of Putamen Uptake Constant of FDOPA in PET Studies

Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Correspondence: For correspondence or reprints contact: Dr. Sung-Cheng Huang, Div. of Nuclear Medicine, Dept. of Radiological Sciences, UCLA School of Medicine, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024.

ABSTRACT

To estimate the striatal uptake constant of [¹⁸F]-L-6-fluorodopa (FDOPA) in humans, we studied two methods that can account for the image resolution and the background level of FDOPA. These two methods utilize information obtained from multiple ROIs varying in size around the putamen and from profiles crossing the middle of the putamen. The estimation of the uptake constant was based on a model of one-dimensional activity variation. Simulated data were used to evaluate the adequacy of these two methods. Parametric images of FDOPA uptake constants were generated using Patlak analysis for five studies in normals and were then analyzed with the two methods. Results from the simulated data indicated a good agreement between the estimated values and the true simulated values. Results from studies in normals show stable estimates of the FDOPA uptake constant that are not affected by image resolution. The two methods were not sensitive to the misplacement of ROIs and profiles.

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