A prospective head-to-head comparison of 68 Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD and 68 Ga-DOTATATE in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
A prospective head-to-head comparison of 68 Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD and 68 Ga-DOTATATE in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
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DOI:
10.1007/s00259-022-05852-3
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发表时间:
2022-06
影响因子:
9.1
通讯作者:
Yuanyuan Jiang;Qingxing Liu;Guochang Wang;Huimin Sui;Rongxi Wang;Jiarou Wang;Zhaohui Zhu
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作者:
Yuanyuan Jiang;Qingxing Liu;Guochang Wang;Huimin Sui;Rongxi Wang;Jiarou Wang;Zhaohui Zhu
PurposeThe aim of this study was to compare68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD, a dual somatostatin receptor 2– and integrin αVβ3–targeting tracer, to68Ga-DOTATATE in a single group of patients with gastroenteropancreatic (GEP)-neuroendocrine tumours (NETs).MethodsThirty-five patients with histologically confirmed GEP-NETs (5 grade 1, 28 grade 2, and 2 grade 3 tumours) were prospectively enrolled with informed consent. The primary tumour mainly originated from the pancreas and rectum. All patients were scanned with both68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD PET/CT and68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT within a week and compared on a head-to-head basis. Sixteen patients also had conventional18F-FDG PET/CT. Images were evaluated semi-quantitatively using maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) of tumour and tumour-to-background ratio.ResultsAll patients had at least one positive lesion on each of the two scans. A total of 1190 and 1106 lesions were detected on68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD images and68Ga-DOTATATE images, respectively (P= 0.152).68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD PET/CT revealed significantly more lesions in the liver than68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT (634 vs. 532,P= 0.021). Both tracers produced comparable results for detecting primary tumours (20 vs. 20,P= 1.000), lymph node metastases (101 vs. 102,P= 0.655), and bone metastases (381 vs. 398,P= 0.244). The tumourSUVmaxin 12 patients was significantly higher for68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD than for68Ga-DOTATATE (27.2 ± 13.6 vs. 19.5 ± 10.0,P< 0.001); among them, 9 had18F-FDG PET/CT and all were found to be FDG-positive. The remaining 23 patients had significantly higher68Ga-DOTATATE uptake than68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD uptake (22.3 ± 16.4 vs. 11.9 ± 7.5,P< 0.001); among them, 7 had18F-FDG PET/CT and 6 were FDG-negative. Generally,68Ga-DOTATATE demonstrated higher tumourSUVmaxthan68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD (20.8 ± 16.0 vs. 14.2 ± 8.9,P< 0.001), including primary tumours, liver lesions, lymph node lesions, and bone lesions. However, the tumour-to-background ratio of liver lesions was significantly higher when using68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD compared with that when using68Ga-DOTATATE (8.4 ± 5.5 vs. 4.7 ± 3.7,P< 0.001).Conclusion68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD performed better than68Ga-DOTATATE in detection of liver metastases with a higher tumour-to-background ratio. Moreover,68Ga-NOTA-3P-TATE-RGD tended to demonstrate higher uptake over68Ga-DOTATATE in FDG-avid NETs.Trial registrationDual SSTR2 and Integrin αvβ3 Targeting PET/CT Imaging (NCT02817945, registered 5 November 2018).URL of registryhttps://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02817945