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Quantitative ⁸²Rb PET/CT: Development and Validation of Myocardial Perfusion Database

¹ Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; and ² Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Correspondence: For correspondence or reprints contact: Cesar A. Santana, MD, PhD, Department of Radiology, Emory University, 1364 Clifton Rd. N.E., Atlanta 30322, Georgia. E-mail: csantan{at}emory.edu

The use of myocardial perfusion ⁸²Rb PET/CT studies continues to increase but its accuracy using database quantification methods for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) has not been established. Methods: A sex-independent normal database and criteria for abnormality for rest–stress ⁸²Rb PET/CT myocardial perfusion imaging were developed and validated by evaluation of 281 patients (136 females: mean age ± SD, 63.3 ± 13.3 y; 145 males: mean age ± SD, 63.9 ± 12.8 y) who underwent a rest–adenosine stress ⁸²Rb PET/CT study. These patients were divided into 3 groups: (a) healthy group: 30 patients, with <5% likelihood of CAD (low likelihood [LLK]) based on sequential Bayesian analysis; these patients were used to generate the normal distribution; (b) pilot group: 174 patients; these patients were used to determine the optimal criteria for detecting and localizing the perfusion abnormality; and (c) validation group: 76 patients (23 with LLK of CAD and 53 who underwent coronary angiography; these patients were used for prospective validation. Results: Of the 53 patients who underwent coronary angiography, 8 had <50% stenosis and 45 patients had at least one stenosis 50% in one major artery. Fifteen patients had single-vessel disease, 17 had double-vessel disease, and 13 had triple-vessel disease. The prospective validation shows a normalcy rate of 78% (18/23) for global CAD. The analyses by individual arteries show a normalcy rate of 96% (22/23) for the left anterior descending coronary artery, 96% for the left circumflex coronary artery (22/23), and 100% for the right coronary artery (23/23). The overall sensitivity for detection of CAD (50% stenosis) was 93% (42/45). The overall specificity for detection of the absence of CAD (50% stenosis) was 75% (6/8). Also, the positive predictive value for global CAD was 95% (42/44), the negative predictive value was 67% (6/9), and the accuracy was 91% (48/53). Conclusion: The quantitative ⁸²Rb PET/CT database created and validated in this study is highly accurate for the detection and localization of CAD. Physicians should consider using the quantitative output of these algorithms as decision support tools to aid with image interpretation.

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