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parison between [18F]uciclovine and PSMA in 50 patients with post-radical prostatectomy bio­chemical recurrence and PSA levels <2ng/mL has shown that PET-CT with labeled PSMA has detection rates for pelvic lymph node regions and for extra-pelvic metastasis meaningfully greater than [18F]uciclovine [32]. The results of a simi­lar study published in the same year underline the advantage of [18F]uciclovine in detecting cur­able localized disease in close anatomical rela­tion to the urinary bladder, whereas [68Ga] PSMA-11 fails because of tracer’s physiological accumulation, while detection rates in assessing distant metastases in recurrent PCa are almost equivalent to [68Ga]PSMA-11 [29].
Generally, PET-CT’s sensitivity in identifying disease relapses is higher in patients with higher blood levels of PSA, while PSA kinetics does not seem to be predictor of a positive scan [33, 34].
Although the impact of PSA levels on [18F]uci­clovine PET-CT positivity rate is known, literature data are conicting on which PSA threshold can reliably identify the presence of early disease recur­rence [35]. Different PSA levels, ranging from 0.3 to 1ng/mL, have been suggested as reliable thresh­old for a positive scan [35, 36]. The results of more recently published studies, in which cohorts of patients with very low PSA values (≤1 ng/mL) were enrolled, have shown that [18]uciclovine is able to maintain a signicant overall detection rate even for very low PSA values [37, 38].
With regard to the biological behavior of the disease, a higher detection rate of [
18
F]uciclo­vine has been documented in the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer, [39, 40], in particular in patients with Gleason score (GS)≥8, stages T3– T4, and castration-resistant disease [41].
The interval time from primary treatment to PSA relapse (TTR) is the only clinical parameter related to tumor aggression for which a signi­cant inverse correlation with the detection rate has been demonstrated, with an optimal cut-off of 20months [34].
Regarding the sensitivity of the method based on the recently validated EAU BCR risk groups, Selnæs etal. described a lower detection rate of [18F]uciclovine PET-MR in the UAE low-risk BCR group, without however reaching statistical
signicance due to the small sample size exam-
42]; therefore, further studies are needed.
ined [
Finally, the localization of disease recurrence on [18F]uciclovine PET-CT may be inuenced by the type of primary curative treatment; among the patients enrolled in the FALCON trial, the detection rate was signicantly lower in patients undergoing prostatectomy (32%) than in those with intact prostate (95%) [43].
Finally, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) does not seem to have a negative impact on the positivity rate of [18F]uciclovine PET-CT [44].
In order to correctly characterize the recur­rence of prostate cancer, it is important to dene whether the disease is conned to the prostate or the prostate bed or has an extraprostatic development.
In patients with an intact prostate, [18F]uci­clovine PET-CT has a high sensitivity (88–90%) against a low specicity (32–40%) in identifying local disease recurrence [2, 45]; this low specic­ity is probably due in part to submaximal local therapy with residual viable prostate tissue char­acterized by non-specic uptake. Consequently, in patients with an intact prostate gland, a local uptake of [18F]uciclovine requires histological conrmation.
[18F]Fluciclovine has high specicity and medium/high sensitivity on the basis of PSA lev­els in identifying lymph node recurrence.
Overall sensitivity, specicity, and accuracy of [18F]uciclovine in the detection of extrapros­tatic disease are 55%, 97%, and 73%, respec­tively [
45]; in a large multicenter study with 596
enrolled patients, a high positive predictive value (PPV) of 92.3% in the detection of extraprostatic disease has been described [2].
Regarding skeletal recurrence, metastatic bone lesions can be detected on [18F]uciclovine PET-CT before the appearance of morpho­structural changes on CT.
[18F]Fluciclovine has shown to accumulate in osteolytic and osteosclerotic lesions with high cell density [46]; this tracer typically shows intense focal uptake in lytic bone lesions and variable activity in sclerotic lesions. It has been hypothesized that sclerotic lesions can be charac­terized by a low number of tumor cells, with a
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consequent lower uptake, difcult to distinguish from the physiological bone marrow activity.
Since dense sclerotic lesions may be charac­terized by little or no [18F]uciclovine uptake, it is therefore advisable to perform in these cases an additional skeletal-specic imaging [47].
Unfortunately, in most of the early clinical studies carried out, the presence of a positive bone scan represented an exclusion criteria; therefore, in the absence of further evidence, [18F]uciclovine PET-CT is currently not recom­mended as a substitute for bone scan or PET-CT with [18F]NaF.
Rescue radiotherapy (RT) of the prostate or prostate bed and pelvis is commonly performed in patients with biochemical recurrence [45, 48]. Conventional CT and MRI imaging is routinely used for the denition of the target clinical vol­ume. Despite consensus guidelines for target vol­ume denition published by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) [49], disease diffusion may be underestimated, resulting in failure of the biochemical response.
Thanks to the introduction of functional imag­ing such as [18F]uciclovine PET-CT, more patients present a suspect extraprostatic disease [30]; additional information provided from [18F] uciclovine PET-CT scan may therefore inu­ence radiation treatment planning.
A recent study reported a signicant change in radiotherapy planning in 40.5% of patients with biochemical failure randomized to undergo [18F] uciclovine PET-CT in addition to standard-of­care imaging before radiotherapy [50] and described a signicant change in the denition of the target volume when [18F]uciclovine PET-CT results were included in the treatment planning; a signicant change in radiotherapy treatment planning was also reported by the pivotal LOCATE study [30].
Finally, several studies show that [18F]uci­clovine PET-CT may also play a role in the stag­ing of primary prostate cancer [51, 52]; although the data are very promising, the currently avail­able radiopharmaceuticals, including [18F]uci­clovine, have yet to show acceptable sensitivity values to be considered for routine clinical use in the primary staging phase [53, 54].
14.4.2 PET-MRI
Despite its proven usefulness, PET-CT has some limitations, especially with regard to the local staging of prostate cancer and the characteriza­tion of some incidental lesions: in these situa­tions, further evaluation by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be indicated, in order to allow an optimal clinical management. The high MRI contrast soft-tissue and its ability to deter­mine cell density through diffusion-weighted images (DWI) represent a powerful supplement to the metabolic information derived from PET. Consequently, the recent introduction in clinical practice of hybrid PET-MRI imaging offers the potential advantage of improving the diagnosis, initial staging, and restaging of numer­ous types of cancer.
Several recent studies have shown that hybrid PET-MRI imaging can improve diagnostic accu­racy in prostate cancer compared to other imag­ing modalities, allowing to make a better patient selection for rescue therapies and to guide per­sonalized treatment.
There are many advantages deriving from the use of PET-MRI imaging: in general compared to the sequential use of multiparametric MRI and PET-CT, hybrid PET-MRI imaging allows to reduce scan times, offers a better logistical solu­tion for patients, and allows to reduce patient radiation exposure, as CT scanning is not required.
Since [ only by neoplastic tissue but also by normal pros­tate tissue and other prostatic pathologies (such as benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis), the integration of information deriving from T2 weighted (T2W) and diffusion weighted (DW) MRI sequences with those deriving from PET allows to more easily discriminate malignant from benign tissue and to improve the detection and characterization of prostate cancer in selected cases [55].
Regarding the assessment of lymph node recurrence, MRI sensitivity and specicity may be limited by size and nodal morphology [56,
57]; it is well known that normal-appearing
lymph nodes on CT and MRI can harbor meta-
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static disease [58–62]: given that [18F]uciclo­vine has shown high accuracy in detecting nodal and distant metastases in recurrent prostate cancer, the integrated use of the two methods can improve this potential limitation of MRI.
Most of the published studies concern the use of combined PET-MRI imaging in the staging of primary prostate cancer; Turkbey et al. showed that combining the information from [18F]uci- clovine PET with multiparametric MRI (mpMRI) increased the positive predictive value for detect­ing prostate cancer from 76% for mpMRI alone to 82% [53].
Elschot etal. found that PET-MRI discrimi­nated better than MRI or PET alone between tumor and benign tissue and between high-grade tumor and other tissue (including low-grade tumor) [56].
Similarly Galgano etal. showed that [18F]u­ciclovine PET-MRI has a potential role in initial staging of high-risk prostate cancer and in eval­uating response to ADT [63]. Regarding lymph nodes staging, Selnæs et al. described high specicity but low sensitivity of [18F]uciclo­vine PET- MRI for the detection of lymph node metastases in high-risk prostate cancer patients [64].
Regarding the performance of [18F]uciclo­vine PET-MRI in the evaluation of osseous metastases from castration-resistant prostate can­cer, the study by Amorim etal. suggests that [18F] uciclovine does not confer a signicant increase in sensitivity over MRI alone, especially in case of densely sclerotic lesions [
42, 65].
Finally, with regard to the use of PET-MRI in restaging phase in case of biochemical disease recurrence, it has been shown that PET-MRI may be useful to select patients for appropriate treatment, but it is of limited use at low PSA values or in patients classied as UAE Low­Risk BCR.
However, the studies performed have several limitations, mainly represented by the small sam­ple size analyzed; therefore, new studies with larger patients cohorts are needed in order to dene the correct diagnostic value of [18F]uci­clovine PET-MRI imaging and to justify its rou­tinary clinical use.
14.4.3 Other Malignancies
Although the use of [18F]uciclovine is cur­rently reserved for patients affected by recurrent prostate cancer, it was initially developed for PET imaging of brain tumors [1] and has also allowed in several cases to identify other neo­plasms [66].
It is not rare to nd a second primary neo­plasm on a [18F]Fluciclovine PET-CT performed for prostate cancer evaluation, and colorectal cancer represent the most common of the occa­sionally detected primary cancers [67].
Regarding the study of brain neoplasms, PET-CT with marked amino acids has proven to be very useful in integrating MRI in the diagnos­tic imaging of gliomas; amino acid tracers typi­cally have a high uptake in tumor cells and a low concentration in normal brain tissue [68–72]. [18F]Fluciclovine PET-CT may therefore play a role in the imaging of brain tumors; following results from a recent review have been reported: glioma and glioblastoma are FACBC-avid tumors, with a detection rate of about 100%; [18F] uciclovine PET-CT has a high diagnostic accu­racy, higher than MRI in dening tumor exten­sion, volumes, and in characterizing satellite lesions; compared to methionine, it has similar diagnostic accuracy but a better tumor-to­background ratio; nally, [18F]uciclovine seems able to help in discriminating between low- and high- grade gliomas [73].
These data derive from small patient samples; consequently, in order to clarify the real clinical and diagnostic role of [
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F]uciclovine in this set­ting and its possible position in the diagnostic owchart, further studies with larger cohorts of patients are needed.
14.5 PET/CT Acquisition Protocols
14.5.1 Patient Preparation
Since muscle uptake of [18F]uciclovine can be inuenced by physical activity linked to an increase in the rate of protein synthesis and deg­radation and amino acid transport, it is generally
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recommended to patients to avoid strenuous exercise for at least 1day before the exam.
Fasting for at least 4h is generally required before scanning, but oral hydration with water to take medications and to avoid oral dryness is allowed.
Patients should hold their urine for at least 30–60min prior to injection, unless this prevents them from standing still or completing imaging.
At the end of the examination, oral hydration and frequent diuresis must be recommended dur­ing the rst hours after the scan, in order to reduce the radiation exposure of the bladder.
14.5.2 Recommendations for[18F]
Fluciclovine Infusion andAdministered Tracer Activity
[18F]Fluciclovine should be administered as a bolus intravenous injection; the maximum rec­ommended injection volume of the undiluted product is 5mL; however, it can be diluted with a 9mg/mL (0.9%) sodium chloride solution by a factor of 8 (1+7 dilution). The injection should be followed by intravenous ushing of a sterile 9 mg/mL (0.9%) sodium chloride solution to maximize use of the dispensed activity. The rec­ommended injected activity is 370 MBq (10mCi). No weight based dosage adjustment is recommended as an analysis of the potential impact of body mass changes did not demon­strate any substantial change in effective radia­tion dose. Furthermore, no dosage adjustment is required for the elderly population.
14.5.3 [18F]Fluciclovine PET/CT
Acquisition Protocol andReconstruction
On the basis of the pharmacokinetic characteris­tics described above, the radiopharmaceutical injection should be performed with the patient
already positioned supine on the tomograph table, in order to start the scan 3–5 min after administration.
Once the patient is positioned comfortably, the CT scan can be started, followed by the PET scan, 3–5min after the injection.
It is also possible, before starting the standard scan, to perform an initial dynamic scan (0–5min) of the pelvic region.
The standard scan should start at the pelvic region and end at the base of the skull. For clini­cal reasons, the scan can be extended to the cra­nial vertex. If for clinical reasons it is required to extend the image acquisition to the lower limbs, it is advisable to perform it as a separate acquisi­tion immediately after the initial imaging, keep­ing the arms along the body for comfort.
Assuming that the small lesions observed on PET can be better characterized by a diagnostic quality CT, the acquisition parameters of the CT and PET will in any case depend on the charac­teristics of the scanner provided in the various centers.
The use of CT contrast is optional but appears to have a limited impact on the quality of the imaging and interpretation of the study; it is also possible that iodinated contrast diuresis may stimulate early urinary excretion of the radiotracer.
Time-of-ight (TOF) PET with a reconstruc­tion method including modeling of resolution degradation, often referred to as point spread function (PSF) reconstruction, may help with the detection of small lesions.
A CT bone reconstruction algorithm is recom­mended in addition to the standard CT reconstruction.
The study of the images must be carried out after fusion of the PET data with the standard and bone CT reconstructions.
PET-MRI can be used as an alternative or sup­plement to PET-CT in prostate cancer.
Details of the acquisition protocol and recon­struction for PET-MRI are beyond the scope of this guideline.
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14.6 Interpretative Criteria
Generally soft-tissue lesions with a maximum diameter>1cm can be dened as suspicious for disease recurrence if the degree of uptake is higher to that of the bone marrow, preferably measured at the level of the L3 vertebrae.
Conversely, lesions with a maximum diame­ter<1cm may be subject to partial volume effect, but if localized in the typical sites of metastases, they should be interpreted as suspicious if the degree of uptake is equal to or similar to that of the bone marrow and greater than that measured on the blood pool of the abdominal aorta.
As for the study of the prostate bed in patients who have undergone surgery (prostatectomy with or without seminal vesicles removal), focal uptake (SUVmax) ndings equal to or greater than the bone marrow (SUVmean) are to be con­sidered suspected for malignancy, while ndings with uptake values between bone marrow and blood pool do not meet malignancy criteria, but should be reported as requiring close follow-up and/or correlation with MRI.
A symmetrical radio-concentration on semi­nal vesicles similar to that of the blood pool is probably physiological, both in patients who have undergone prostatectomy and radiotherapy, while an asymmetric uptake between blood pool and bone marrow may represent malignancy, requiring MRI correlation.
On patients who have undergone radiotherapy, brachytherapy, cryotherapy, HiFU (high­focused ultrasound), suspicious ndings may be characterized by diffuse, focal, or multi-focal uptake, in any case higher than the average bone marrow activity, while ndings with uptake between that of the blood pool and the bone mar­row are worthy of close follow-up or MRI correlation.
Lymph nodes with maximum diameter≥1cm located in the typical areas of prostate cancer recurrence characterized by an uptake equal to or greater than the bone marrow should be consid­ered suspected for malignancy; a degree of uptake between the blood pool and the bone marrow activity does not meet the criteria of malignancy but should be reported as requiring close follow-
intensity
up; if uptake is less than or equal to the blood pool, the lymph node can be considered as benign.
Uptake equal to or greater than the blood pool but signicantly lower than the bone marrow does not meet the positivity criteria, but should still be reported as requiring close monitoring.
High uptake ndings in lymph nodes located in atypical sites for recurrence (for example, inguinal, external iliac, hilar, and axillary regions) should be considered suspect for recurrence only if present in a context of other malignant dis­eases; otherwise, moderate symmetrical uptake can be interpreted as physiological.
Lymph nodes located in the distal external iliac stations can be considered pathological if the uptake is isolated and asymmetrical and if the causes of false positivity such as the presence of neighboring vascular grafts or orthopedic devices can be excluded.
Necrotic lymph nodes can cause false negative results.
The presence of focal skeletal uptake to “max­imum intensity projection” (MIP) PET images should be considered suspicious for malignancy. Lytic lesions tend to have higher uptake levels than sclerotic lesions.
The presence of suspicious bone abnormality on CT such as sclerosis without uptake can repre­sent causes of false negativity; in these cases, fur­ther diagnostic investigations with other imaging modalities (MRI, Na[18F]F PET-CT, conventional bone scan SPECT-CT, or PSMA if approved for use) should be recommended.
[18F]Fluciclovine is characterized by a higher heterogeneity of bone marrow activity than [
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FDG and careful PET windowing is helpful.
High uptake may be present following a trau­matic event (such as compression fractures).
Finally, areas of normal bone marrow regen­eration (characteristic sites are pelvis and proxi­mal femoral regions) may show increased physiological uptake; in these cases, it is advis­able to perform an integrated MRI study, espe­cially in the absence of clear CT correlates and if the ndings are solitary.
With regard to the liver, areas characterized by focal uptake higher than the activity of the healthy
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liver should be considered suspicious for malignancy.
Areas characterized by activity lower than the healthy liver, but higher than the medullary one, may also represent localizations of disease and are therefore worthy of diagnostic integration with morphological imaging.
14.7 Variants andPitfalls
[18F]Fluciclovine PET-CT image evaluation can be misled by the presence of false positive (FP) and false negative (FN) results [19, 74].
In the prostate gland, potential false positive results include benign prostatic hyperplasia, inammation, and post-actinic brosis [75].
False positive results at the lymph node level can be caused by inammation or acute and chronic infections, especially if symmetrical and in atypical sites of prostate cancer.
Occasionally, a cause of false positivity may be a high uptake at the level of the middle lobe (central invagination of the base of the prostate inside the bladder), caused by the presence of prostatic hypertrophy in this region.
Finally, it should be noted that anecdotally, median lobe uptake (central base invaginating into the bladder) has a higher false positivity due to an increased presence of prostatic hypertrophy in this region.
A certain degree of uciclovine uptake has also been observed on inammatory skin lesions, inguinal lymphadenopathy caused by ringworm infection and musculoskeletal inammation.
[18F]Fluciclovine uptake in renal masses should be further investigated, as could represent a malignant etiology. Papillary renal cell carci­noma has been shown to have a higher uptake, while clear cell carcinoma has an uptake equal to the renal parenchyma [76].
Benign bone lesions such as osteoid osteoma may have moderate uptake.
Mild radio-concentration may also be observed in degenerative disc and facet disease, although less common and less intense than is normally observed with [18F]FDG.
Occasionally, intense benign/non-specic activity may be observed at the level of the joints or at the muscle insertions.
Benign meningioma can have intense uptake [77].
Pituitary and adrenal adenomas may eventu­ally be characterized by a greater focal uptake of the surrounding tissue.
Finally, as reported above, possible false nega­tive results can be observed in presence of necrotic metastatic lymph nodes and some types of sclerotic bone lesions. In the following, we present a case series illustrating some applica­tions of [18F]Fluciclovine in various clinical set­tings (Figs.14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, and 14.7).
Fig. 14.4 Patient previously submitted to radiotherapy due to prostatic carcinoma (Gleason score 3+3), subse­quently submitted to hormone therapy with LHRH.Due to progressive PSA increase (pre PET-CT scan value of
2.73ng/mL, DT< 10 months), a restaging [ vine PET-CT has been scheduled. [ imaging (a) revealed some areas of focal uptake in the
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F]Fluciclovine MIP
F]uciclo-
pelvis (black arrows); PET (b, e), and especially fused PET/CT transaxial slices (d, g) revealed focal uptake of the tracer in the right iliac lymph nodes (white arrows). The patient was then submitted to stereotactic RT with complete metabolic response. Images c and f show co­registration CT transaxial slices used for fusion
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Fig. 14.3 Patient previously submitted to surgery (pros­tatectomy and vesiculectomy) due to prostatic carcinoma (Gleason score 7, pT3a), subsequently submitted to hor­mone therapy with LHRH.Due to a recent cystoscopic nding of disease recurrence in the posterior wall of the bladder, a restaging [
18
F]Fluciclovine MIP imaging (a) revealed some
uled. [
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F]uciclovine PET-CT was sched-
areas of focal uptake in the pelvis (black arrows); PET (b, e) and especially fused PET/CT transaxial slices (d, g) revealed focal uptake of the tracer in the posterior-inferior wall of the bladder (white short arrow) and in the right iliac nodes (white long arrow). Images c and f show co­registration CT transaxial slices used for fusion
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Fig. 14.5 Patient previously submitted to surgery (pros­tatectomy) due to prostatic carcinoma (Gleason score 8, pT3b, pN0), stereotactic radiotherapy in the prostatic bed and hormone therapy with LHRH. Due to progressive PSA increase (pre PET-CT scan value of 4 ng/mL, DT<6 months), a [
18
F]Fluciclovine MIP imaging (a) revealed some
uled. [
18
F]uciclovine PET-CT was sched-
areas of focal uptake in the pelvis (black arrows); PET (b, e) and fused PET/CT transaxial slices (d, g) revealed focal uptake of the tracer in the right sacral bone (white short arrow) and in the left ilium (white long arrow), while co­registration CT transaxial images (c, f) did not show clear osteostructural modications
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Fig. 14.6 Patient previously submitted to surgery (pros­tatectomy) due to prostatic carcinoma (Gleason score 8, pT3a, pN0, R1). After 2years, a progressive increased PSA value was registered and a [ was scheduled. PSA before PET/CT execution was
5.73ng/mL. [ an area of intense focal uptake in the pelvis (black short arrow) and mild focal concentration in the left upper thigh region (black long arrow). PET (b) and fused PET/CT
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F]Fluciclovine MIP imaging (a) revealed
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transaxial slices (d) revealed focal uptake of the tracer in a centimetric lymph node along the left external iliac chain (white short arrow), while PET (e) and fused PET/ CT transaxial slices (g) showed focal mild uptake in the internal trabecular portion of proximal epiphyseal region of the left femur (white long arrow), attribute to physio-
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Fig. 14.7 A 71-year-old patient, previously submitted to radical prostatectomy due to prostate cancer (GS 8, pT3a). After 3years, a progressive increased PSA value was reg­istered. PSA before [
0.38ng/mL (DT<6months). [ (a–d) resulted negative. The same patient examined
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F]choline PET/CT scan
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2months later with PET/CT with [ imaging detected increased tracer incorporation in a small sub-centimetric iliac node (e, black arrow; f and g, white arrow). The patient was then submitted to stereotactic RT with complete metabolic response
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14.8 Clinical Cases
See Figs.14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, and 14.7.
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