Sci-Fri AM: Imaging - 01: Feasibility of estimating choline kinase activity with kinetic modeling of 18F-fluorocholine pet imaging of prostate cancer

Medical Physics
A R Blais, T-Y Lee

Abstract

Prostate cancer (PCa) detection and delineation remains a challenge for medical imaging. Studies have shown (18) F-Fluorocholine (FCH) PET imaging to be a promising modality in the detection of recurrent PCa. Detection of denovo PCa is more challenging, as lesions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) may adversely affect the sensitivity and specificity of the modality. PCa and BPH have been shown to exhibit similar uptake of FCH, yet it has been shown that phosphocholine levels are much more elevated in PCa compared to BPH. Therefore, it would be useful to measure the activity of phosphorylation via choline kinase (k3 ) in order to differentiate PCa from BPH. This work examines the feasibility of using a compartmental model to estimate k3 with dynamic (18) F-Fluorocholine PET imaging. JSim software [1] was used to simulate the compartmental model for FCH exchange. A simulated tissue curve was generated using predefined parameters and the model's ability to estimate these parameters through fitting of the simulated tissue curve with and without noise was investigated. The fitting procedure was performed using the non-negative least squares algorithm in MATLAB after the equation governing fitting was linearized. In the nois...Continue Reading

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