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Computational Nuclear Oncology Toward Precision Radiopharmaceutical Therapies: Current Tools, Techniques, and Uncharted Territories

Tahir Yusufaly, Emilie Roncali, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Carlos Uribe, Abhinav K. Jha, Geoffrey Currie, Joyita Dutta, Georges El-Fakhri, Helena McMeekin, Neeta Pandit-Taskar, Jazmin Schwartz, Kuangyu Shi, Lidia Strigari, Habib Zaidi, Babak Saboury and Arman Rahmim
Journal of Nuclear Medicine April 2025, 66 (4) 509-515; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.124.267927
Tahir Yusufaly
1Division of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland;
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Emilie Roncali
2Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California;
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Julia Brosch-Lenz
3Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Glen Burnie, Maryland;
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Carlos Uribe
4Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;
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Abhinav K. Jha
5Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri;
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Geoffrey Currie
6School of Dentistry and Medical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia;
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Joyita Dutta
7Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts;
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Georges El-Fakhri
8Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
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Helena McMeekin
9Hermes Medical Solutions, London, United Kingdom;
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Neeta Pandit-Taskar
10Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York;
11Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York;
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Jazmin Schwartz
12Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York;
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Kuangyu Shi
13Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;
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Lidia Strigari
14Department of Medical Physics, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy;
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Habib Zaidi
15Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland;
16Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands;
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Babak Saboury
17United Theranostics, Bethesda, Maryland; and
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Arman Rahmim
4Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;
18Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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    Diagram comparing present one-size-fits-all RPT approach (A) with vision of precision RPTs (B). Central to such a future is development of robust models that translate therapeutic inputs to clinical outputs, from which one can prescribe optimal protocols in cycle 1 and refine the process in later cycles to adaptively optimize treatment.

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    RPT is hybridization of 2 therapeutic paradigms, pharmacotherapy and radiation therapy, but with additional element of physiologically mediated delivery that can be imaged through nuclear medicine. Accordingly, CNO may be considered analogous hybrid of pharmacokinetic modeling and radiobiology-calibrated dosimetry, linked via intermediary of image-based internal dosimetry. PD = pharmacodynamics.

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    PBPK modeling and simulation from drug discovery and development communities can be applied to enable RPT dosimetry via theranostic principle, which enables estimation of patient-specific pharmacokinetics with pretherapy PET imaging, and use these models to help prospectively predict patient-specific therapeutic doses that can be verified with real-time SPECT imaging. PI = after injection. (PBPK figure adapted from (118), theranostics schematic adapted from (119), diagnostic PET and therapeutic SPECT cartoons adapted from (120), model-parameterized PBRPK network adapted from (8), and time-integrated activity–to–AD diagram adapted from (121).)

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    Concepts, tools, and models of external-beam radiobiology, from which much of modern EBRT treatment planning is based, must be modified for RPT because of physiologically mediated small-scale biodistribution and dosimetry, which modify radiation response via series of complex and incompletely understood mechanisms. RPT-adapted radiobiologic modeling must ultimately be paired with suitably estimated multiscale extrapolation to enable robust end-to-end prediction of clinical outcome, illustrated here for the example of acute kidney injury. AKD = acute kidney disease; AKI = acute kidney injury; CKD = chronic kidney disease; CVD = cardiovascular disease; IM = inner medulla; ISOM = inner strip of outer medulla; OSOM = outer strip of outer medulla. (Multiscale anatomy diagrams adapted from (122), acute injury dynamic function schematic adapted from (123), PET/CT adapted from (124), and multiscale dosimetry figure adapted from (125).)

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Tahir Yusufaly, Emilie Roncali, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Carlos Uribe, Abhinav K. Jha, Geoffrey Currie, Joyita Dutta, Georges El-Fakhri, Helena McMeekin, Neeta Pandit-Taskar, Jazmin Schwartz, Kuangyu Shi, Lidia Strigari, Habib Zaidi, Babak Saboury, Arman Rahmim
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    • REPURPOSING PHYSIOLOGICALLY BASED PHARMACOKINETICS (PBPK) INTO PHYSIOLOGICALLY BASED RADIOPHARMACOKINETICS (PBRPK) FOR PERSONALIZED RPT DOSIMETRY
    • RECALIBRATING EBRT RADIOBIOLOGY FOR MULTISCALE RPT DOSIMETRY
    • FORWARD-LOOKING VISION: CNO AS A BASIS FOR CROSS-SPECIALTY DIGITAL TWINS
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