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  • Title: Clinical utility of dual-energy CT used as an add-on to 18F FDG PET/CT in the preoperative staging of resectable NSCLC with suspected single osteolytic metastases.
    Author: Wu H, Dong S, Li X, Shi L, Shao D, Zhang Q, Chen M, Cao Y, Thant M, Huang X.
    Journal: Lung Cancer; 2020 Feb; 140():80-86. PubMed ID: 31901595.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To determine the clinical value of 18F-FDG-PET/CT and dual-energy virtual noncalcium CT to detect and identify single osteolytic metastases (SOM) in participants with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Forty-two participants (mean age, 63.5 years ± 10.1; range, 41-81 years) with suspected SOM diagnosed by whole-body 18F-FDG-PET/CT underwent non-enhanced dual-energy CT. All images were visually and quantitatively evaluated by two nuclear medicine physicians (R1 and R2) and two radiologists (R3 and R4) independently. The results of visual and quantitative analysis of 18F-FDG-PET/CT and dual-energy CT were compared with pathological results. RESULTS: In the visual analysis, the specificity and positive predictive value of dual-energy CT for reader 1 and reader 2 is larger than the corresponding figures of18F-FDG-PET/CT for reader 3 and reader 4 (94.1% each vs 82.4%/76.5%; 95.2%/95.0% vs 88.9%/86.2%). The sensitivity and negative predictive value of dual-energy CT is relatively lower than the number of 18F-FDG-PET/CT for readers (80.0%/76.0% vs 96.0%/100.0%; 76.2%/72.7% vs 93.3%/100.0%, respectively). ROI-based analysis of SUVmax on PET/CT images and CT numbers on VNCa images showed a significant difference between metastases and non-metastases (P < 0.001 each). CONCLUSIONS: Pre-surgical evaluation by combination of whole-body 18F-FDG-PET/CT and dual-energy CT could improve the classification of SOM and may further guide the surgical decision-making in participants with NSCLC.
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