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Ga-Pentixafor
FrancescaRusso, MassimoMenichini, MariaRicci, LauraTravascio, HabibollahDadgar, HosseinArabi, NasimNorouzbeigi, MariaSilviaDe Feo, HabibZaidi, BatoolAlbalooshi, andAndreaCimini
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Abbreviations
CT Computed tomography CXCL12 C-X-C motif chemokine 12 CXCR4 Chemokine receptor 4 DOTA 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane1,
4,7,10-tetraacetic acid FDG Fluorodeoxyglucose FWHM Full width at half maximum
The authors declare they have obtained permission for any previously published material used in their chapter.
F. Russo Nuclear Medicine Unit, Clinica Ars Medica, Rome, Italy
M. Menichini · A. Cimini (*) Nuclear Medicine Unit, St. Salvatore Hospital, L’Aquila, Italy
M. Ricci Nuclear Medicine Unit, Cardarelli Hospital, Campobasso, Italy
L. Travascio UOC Nuclear Medicine, P.O.Pescara Santo Spirito, Pescara, Italy
H. Dadgar · N. Norouzbeigi Razavi Cancer Research Center, Imam Reza International University, Razavi Hospital, Mashhad, Iran
H. Arabi Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Hossein.Arabi@unige.ch
e-mail:
MR Magnetic resonance NET Neuroendocrine tumor OSEM Ordered-subsets expectation
maximization PET Positron emission tomography PET/CT Positron emission computed tomog-
raphy/computed tomography PET/MR Positron emission computed tomog-
raphy/magnetic resonance
M. S. De Feo Department of Radiological Sciences, Oncology and Anatomo-Pathology, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
mariasilvia.defeo@uniroma1.it
e-mail:
H. Zaidi Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva University Neurocenter, Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Habib.Zaidi@unige.ch
e-mail:
B. Albalooshi Dubai Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Center, Dubai Academic Health Corporation, Dubai, UAE
bealbalooshi@dha.gov.ae
e-mail:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024 F. Calabria, O. Schillaci (eds.), Radiopharmaceuticals,
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PET/MRI Positron emission computed tomog-
raphy/magnetic resonance imaging
SUVmax Maximum standardized uptake
value
TME Tumor microenvironment
17.1 Synthesis
The synthesis of 68Ga-DOTA-Pentixafor is mostly performed using a specic, fully auto­mated module (Scintomics GRP®, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany). The module is controlled by a computerized system which runs the valves and syringes on the cassettes (specic for the synthesis of [68Ga]-DOTA-Pentixafor) obtained from ABX pharmaceuticals (ABX, Advanced Biochemical Compounds, Radeberg, Germany). The system is used to produce other radiopharmaceuticals, such as 68Ga-prostate spe­cic membrane antigen (68Ga-PSMA),
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Ga-DOTA0-Tyr3octreotide (68Ga-DOTATOC),
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Ga-DOTA0-Tyr3octreotate (68Ga-DOTATATE), using a specic synthesis cassette. For each spe­cic radiopharmaceutical process, there is a spe­cic template computer program [1].
In German experience, the germanium-68 (68Ge)/68Ga generators used is a good manufac­turing practice compliant generator with
1.85 GBq total activity [1]. Elution is per­formed on the rst day of the week and on non­synthesis days: the build-up of metal ions on the column must be eluted on a daily basis and within 24h prior to any
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Ga-DOTA-Pentixafor
synthesis. Elution process is performed using a
0.1 M HCl solution in approximately 5 min. The elution volume is 10 mL. Synthesis of
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Ga-DOTA-Pentixafor is performed using
10μg of peptide [1].
17.2 Pharmacokinetics
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Ga-Pentixafor is a PET radiopharmaceutical that binds chemokine receptor CXCR4, over­expressed in a variety of malignancies [2].
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a network of extracellular matrix, stromal cells, and immune cells working together to create a favorable home for tumor cells. The stromal component of the TME includes different cell types, such as cancer- associated broblasts, platelets, and immune cells [2–7]. CXCR4 is a small, secreted chemokine receptor with a seven-transmembrane structure with seven helical regions connected by six extra-mem­brane loops. Being above all expressed in B lymphocytes and plasmacytoid dendritic cells, it potentially promotes an immunosuppressive state contributing to tumor progression. Moreover, CXCR4 and its ligand stromal cell derived factor-1 (SDF-1, also known as CXCL12) play a key role in various physio­logic processes based on both recruitment and homing of stem cells, progenitor cells, and immune cells. It is thus important in embryo­genesis, neo- angiogenesis, hematopoiesis, and inammation [2–9].
The binding of CXCL12 to CXCR4 induces vascular permeability and allows tumor cell extravasation, thus promoting the metastatic pro­cess in several organs including lung, liver, skel­etal muscle, brain, kidney, heart, skin, and bone marrow [10, 11]. Moreover, the activation of CXCR4 also promotes vasculogenesis and hypoxia-driven angiogenesis by recruiting CXCR4- positive pro-angiogenic cells, which contribute to the spread of cancer cells. In addi­tion, the CXCL12/CXCR4 axis enhances vascu­lar permeability and enables tumor cell extravasation, all ultimately promoting the meta­static process [
2–11].
17.3 Physiological Distribution
Sites of signicant 68Ga-Pentixafor uptake include spleen, kidneys, bone marrow, heart, and liver [4, 12].
An initial high uptake is observed in the liver, corresponding to a value of 5.6% of injected activity after 4min, and is followed by a rapid washout to 0.2% after 4 h [4].
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Significant tracer uptake is also observed in the heart with 3.1% after 4min, declining to less than 0.1% after 4h. Being characterized by low uptake compared with other visible organs, the gallbladder shows favorable imag­ing characteristics, with high tumor-to-back­ground (TBR) ratios 30min after intravenous injection [4].
The highest absorbed dose per unit activity is observed in the urinary bladder wall (8.14E– 02mGy/MBq), followed by the spleen (5.38E– 02mGy/MBq) and the kidneys (3.5E–02 mGy/ MBq). Organ-absorbed doses associated with
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Ga-Pentixafor are lower than those of other
PET radiopharmaceuticals [12].
17.4 Clinical Indications
CXCR4 is overexpressed on tumor cell surface of more than 30 different human cancers including both solid and hematological malig­nancies, thereby rendering this G-protein cou­pled receptor an attractive target for imaging and therapy. As previously reported, CXCR4 promotes tumor growth, metastatic process, angiogenesis and tumor–cell interaction, and its expression is associated with more aggres­sive tumor behavior and poorer prognosis [2]. In addition, the CXCR4–CXCL12 axis is implicated in treatment resistance by provid­ing a safe space for tumor cells in the bone marrow which makes cancers resistant to che­motherapy. Therefore, the inhibition of the CXCR4 axis would be the goal of oncological therapies by slowing disease progression, inhibiting metastatic process and improving tumor chemosensitivity. As assays CXCR4 expression in vivo, it repre­sents a predictive biomarker for CXCR4­targeting treatments and a valuable theragnostic agent to select patients likely to benefit from targeted radionuclides therapies [3]. In fact, although 68Ga-Pentixafor-based imaging currently plays a complimentary role to 18F-FDG PET in the staging of solid tumors,
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Ga-pentixafor
it may provide important prognostic informa­tion and aid in the selection of patients eligible for CXCR4-targeting therapies and in treat­ment response evaluation [
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Ga-Pentixafor PET aims to discover a new
2]. In this scenario,
theragnostic marker rather than establish another diagnostic tracer [2].
In high grade head and neck squamous carci­noma, the overexpression of CXCR4 was revealed in recent studies. Chen et al. demon­strated low tracer uptake with a TBR of less than 4, with only mild tracer accumulation on the
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Ga-Pentixafor PET [2, 13], as imaging with a CXCR4-targeting tracers generally results in lower SUVmax values and lower TBR when compared to 18F-FDG PET.
On the contrary, in patients with glioblas-
toma, tumor detection is increased in PET with
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Ga-Pentixafor compared to 18F-FDG, because of the absence of physiological brain uptake [14]. In these subjects, the expression CXCR4- CXCL12 relates with World Health Organization (WHO) tumor grade, and it is associated with necrosis/angiogenesis and therefore more inl­trative phenotypes. Although CXCR4 mRNA expression appears to be highest in glioblasto­mas, there is a large variation of CXCR4 expres­sion in glioblastoma tissue itself, both within and between tumors. When high CXCR4 expres­sion is present, targeted imaging with
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Ga-Pentixafor might complement tumor imag­ing. In this context, both tumor imaging and tar­geted radionuclide therapy might improve survival rates of a part of patients showing CXCR4 expression [
14].
In esophageal cancer (OC), Kai etal. demon­strated CXCR4 protein expression in 75 (55%) of 136 esophageal tumors [5], and CXCR4 expres­sion was associated with a poor clinical outcome with a median overall survival of 20 months in patients with CXCR4-positive tumors vs 76months for CXCR4-negative tumors. This was conrmed by Goto et al. [6], who showed how
75.6% of the 172 OC specimens stained positive for CXCR4 signicantly correlated with clinical distant metastasis, pathological lymph node
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metastasis, and vascular invasion. Furthermore, Yang et al. demonstrated high expression of CXCR4 in 101 patients with esophageal squa­mous cell carcinoma versus absence of uptake in normal tissues [15]. Many studies comparing
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Ga-Pentixafor and 18F-FDG revealed the latter as a more sensitive method, but Linde etal. study­ing 10 patients with OC revealed 53% of lesions positive on both tracers, while 19% of lesions were 18F-FDG positive and Pentixafor negative. Interestingly, 68Ga-Pentixafor revealed more sites of disease than 18F-FDG, specically 7/26 (27%) of 18F-FDG negative lesions were 68Ga-Pentixafor positive [16].
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Ga-Pentixafor nds application in G3 neuro­endocrine tumors (NETs), which are keeping higher CXCR4 expression than G1 or G2 NETs, for which 68Ga-DOTATOC remains the most sen­sitive tracer [2, 17].
Emerging research shows that small cell lung cancer (SCLC) expresses CXCR4 invitro, and CXCR4 expression has been investigated to assess if these patients could benet from target therapy. Kaemmerer et al. evaluated 34 SCLC samples by immunohistochemistry. In their study CXCR4, predominantly localized at the plasma membrane of the tumor cells, was corre­lated with clinical data and overall patient sur­vival [18].
Pollino etal. assessed CXCR4 expression in 48 primary osteosarcoma samples compared to 10 healthy bone samples and demonstrated that in osteosarcoma, CXCR4 expression was directly correlated to both the histological grade of the tumor and its aggressiveness. Thus far, this tracer may have a role in prognostic assessment and in selecting patients who may benet from thera­pies targeting CXCR4 [
2, 19].
Shiozaki et al. showed high CXCR4 expres­sion in gynecological malignancies in vitro. Its expression positively correlated with more aggressive disease, lymph nodal dissemination, and metastatic disease [2].
As concerning breast cancer (BC), the overex­pression of CXCR4 on immunohistochemistry has shown to be associated with poorer progno­sis. A meta-analysis by Zhang etal. including 13 eligible studies consisting of 3865 participants showed that CXCR4 overexpression was associ­ated with lymph node inltration, distant metas­tasis, and signicantly reduced disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) [
2]. This
was conrmed in a meta-analysis of 15 studies by Xu et al., which included 3104 patients, and showed that OS and DFS were lower in BC patients with high levels of CXCR4 expression. The comparison between 68Ga-Pentixafor and
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F-FDG revealed inferiority of the former in the detection of metastatic lesions and lower SUVmax values [20].
Even in prostate cancer CXCR4 expression is signicantly associated with a more aggressive disease, the presence of metastasis, and poorer cancer specic survival [2].
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Ga-Pentixafor PET is also useful in adreno­cortical carcinoma. Chifu et al. evaluated the invitro expression of CXCR4in 18 tumor sam­ples and found a strong membrane expression of CXCR4, which related with Ki-67 index [21].
In primary colon cancer, Ottaiano etal. dem­onstrated a correlation between CXCR4 expres­sion and response to rst line chemotherapy, but
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Ga-Pentixafor PET was inferior to 18F-FDG
PET [2, 22], indicating therefore that
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Ga-Pentixafor PET cannot replace but remains
complementary to
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F-FDG PET.
CXCR4 is overexpressed in 88.33% (65/78) of hepatocellular carcinoma and plays a signi­cant role in the metastatic process by promoting the migration of tumor cells [2].
Particular attention should be paid to patients with melanoma, where invivo CXCR4 overexpression has been reported and has been found to be higher in metastasis than primary tumors and also associated with a higher tumor stage. In a meta-analysis of 13 studies investi-
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gating CXCR4 expression in the tumor sam­ples of 656 patients with malignant melanoma, it was found that the high expression of CXCR4 is associated with ulceration, increased tumor thickness, and lymph node metastasis [23]. Vag etal. compared 68Ga-Pentixafor with 18F-FDG in a heterogenous group of patients of whom two had malignant melanoma. In these subjects
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Ga-Pentixafor detected all the four metastatic lesions, as did 18F- FDG PET, even if the SUVmax was slightly higher on 18F-FDG PET [20].
In a meta-analysis of 14 studies involving 1203 participants and performed by Si etal., the authors showed that CXCR4 expression is sig­nicantly higher in patients with metastatic renal carcinoma than in patients with non-metastatic disease, and that its expression is signicantly associated with poorer prognosis [24].
As regards onco-hematological diseases, the role of 68Ga-pentixafor PET in lymphoprolifera­tive disorders is not well dened. Interesting results were shown in a study by Haug et al., evaluating 36 patients with diagnosis of mucosa­associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. In 33 patients, MALT lymphoma showed high uptake of the tracer, suggesting a potential role of
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Ga-Pentixafor PET in the disease assessment of such patients [25]. Moreover, as described by Albano et al., 68Ga-Pentixafor PET may be an interesting imaging technique for the evaluation of marginal zone lymphoma, central nervous sys­tem lymphoma, and lymphoplasmacytic lym­phoma as well [
26].
As CXCR4 is overexpressed in myeloma multiple cells [27], 68Ga-Pentixafor PET has shown promising results in the diagnosis of this disease. In a study by Pan etal., evaluating 30 patients with newly diagnosed myeloma multi­ple, 68Ga-pentixafor PET/CT presented a higher positive rate than 18F-FDG PET/CT in the detection of malignant lesions (93.3% vs.
53.3%) [27]. Furthermore, promising results have been reported in a recent study by Shekhawat and collaborators, evaluating 34 patients with treatment naive multiple myeloma and showing how in comparison to 18F-FDG PET/CT, 68Ga-Pentixafor PET/CT presented higher disease extent in the majority of patients (68%) [28].
17.5 Clinical Cases
See Figs.17.1, 17.2 and 17.3.
Fig. 17.1 Maximum intensity projection (MIP) image of whole-body showing accumulation of the radiotracer in kidneys, uri­nary bladder, spleen, nasopharynx, and moderate inhomo­geneous uptake in the entire axial skeleton
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Fig. 17.2 33-year-old male with diagnosis of glioblastoma: axial CT (a), 68Ga-Pentixafor PET/CT (b) and PET (c, d) images show a left occipito-parietal lesion with SUVmax 2.68
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Fig. 17.3 58-year-old female diagnosed by glioblas­toma: axial CT (a), (c, d) images show a left intra-axial para-falcine mass
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Ga-Pentixafor PET/CT (b) and PET
f
with extension to contralateral hemisphere: the highest SUVmax of the lesion was 3.01. The lesion is also depicted in T2W FLAIR (e) and T1W (f) MRI images
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17.6 PET/CT Acquisition Protocols
As we reported before, 68Ga-Pentixafor PET imaging has been used for the evaluation of malignancies with high CXCR4 expressions. Since 68Ga-Pentixafor PET scanning is performed for a variety of indications, different acquisition protocols are followed in 68Ga-Pentixafor studies. No specic dietary preparation is needed in
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Ga-Pentixafor PET examinations since the glu-
cose metabolic path is not involved in
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Ga-Pentixafor uptake (as opposed to 6h fasting
required in 18F-FDG PET) [29].
In brain 68Ga-Pentixafor examinations, either hybrid PET/MR or PET/CT scanners are employed to perform PET scans in one- or two­bed positions [30]. A typical intravenous activity of 1.5MBq/kg is administered in brain studies, leading to injected activities ranging from 80 to 170 MBq per scan/patient [13, 31, 32].
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Ga-Pentixafor PET examinations are typically conducted 60min post-injection to ensure a high­level uptake in the target regions. Brain
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Ga-Pentixafor PET scans are normally per­formed 30–60min post-injection, depending on the centers/acquisition protocols [33]. Brain PET scan duration varies across centers ranging from 10 to 30min (typically 20min), wherein a single bed position with an acquisition time of 10min is conducted for glioblastoma tissue analysis on a Biograph mCT hybrid PET/CT scanner (Siemens Healthineers) [14] and an acquisition time of 30min is applied for central nervous system lym­phoma assessment using the Biograph mMR hybrid PET/MR scanner (Siemens Healthineers) [
33].
For attenuation and scatter correction, a low­dose CT scan is commonly performed on hybrid PET/CT scanners. The low-dose CT images are typically acquired using a current of 30–50 mAs and maximum tube voltage of 120–130 kVp [31]. Though attenuation map generation in hybrid PET/CT scanners is straightforward, specic strategies should be adopted to generate patient­specic attenuation maps on hybrid PET/MRI scanners. Since the major challenge in MRI­guided attenuation map generation is bone tissue identication, zero-time echo (ZTE) MR
sequence was employed to acquire signals from bony tissue to be included in the generation of brain PET attenuation maps (this strategy is used on the SIGNA™ PET/MRI scanner, GE Healthcare) [
34]. Other approaches rely on a
temple of the human head to incorporate skull bone in brain attenuation map initially estimated from Dixon T1-weighted sequence (this strategy is used on the Biograph mMR hybrid scanner, Siemens Healthineers) [33].
Conventional ordered-subsets expectation maximization (OSEM) algorithm is commonly employed to reconstruct brain 68Ga-Pentixafor PET images. Different iterations and subsets are used across various centers, even on the same PET scanners. For instance, 4/21, 3/21, and 3/24 iterations/subsets have been used to reconstruct
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Ga-Pentixafor brain PET images on the Biograph mCT and mMR scanners (Siemens Healthineers) [14, 31, 33]. Image reconstruction is carried out using time-of-ight (TOF) informa­tion and corrections for radioactivity decay, ran­dom coincidences, photon attenuation, and Compton scatter. Resolution recovery or point spread function (PSF) modeling is considered within PET image reconstruction. The positron range of 68Ga is about 3.5 mm FWHM, which would lead to inferior spatial resolution in PET imaging compared to short positron-range radio­tracers, such as 18F-FDG (<1mm) [35]. The lim­ited spatial resolution compared to the size of the target structures in brain imaging would lead to signicant partial volume effects. This would adversely affect the quantication and quality of PET images [
36]. The use of partial volume cor-
rection approaches, particularly anatomically guided approaches involving the use of MR images, would improve the quantication of
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Ga-Pentixafor brain PET images. Post-
reconstruction smoothing is applied to
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Ga-Pentixafor brain PET images to suppress noise using a Gaussian lter with a kernel size within the range 2–7.5 mm, depending on the noise levels [14].
Whole-body 68Ga-Pentixafor PET scans are normally conducted from the tip of the skull to the middle thigh either in hybrid PET/CT or PET/ MR imaging. The administered radiopharmaceu-
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tical activity varies across different centers/proto­cols, wherein an activity within the range of
1.5–2.9MBq/kg is prescribed in 68Ga-Pentixafor PET examinations [26]. Since 68Ga-Pentixafor metabolism is not linked to the glycemic condi­tion, no specic dietary preparation is required in whole-body 68Ga-Pentixafor PET scans [37]. Most 68Ga-Pentixafor PET scans were conducted 60min post-injection ho. However, uptake times between 30 and 120 min have been applied in whole-body examinations [38, 39]. Depending on the acquisition protocols, an acquisition time of 2–5 min per bed position was adopted in
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Ga-Pentixafor PET scans [38, 40]. For attenua­tion and scatter correction, PET acquisitions were followed by unenhanced low-dose CT scans on PET/CT scanners (20–50 mAs and 120–130 kVp) [29, 36]. On hybrid PET/MRI scanners, synthetic CT images are generated from a two­point MR Dixon (volume-interpolated breath- hold T1-weight sequence) involving four major tissue classes including background air, lung, fat, and soft-tissue [41].
PET image reconstruction is carried out using the conventional OSEM algorithm using mostly 3/21 iterations/subsets on the Biograph mMR and mCT (Siemens Healthineers). The PET emission data is corrected for randoms, decay, photon attenuation, and scatter, and time-of-ight information is considered within image recon­struction when available. Resolution recovery or point spread function (PSF) modeling is applied to enhance the spatial resolution of PET recon­structions. To reduce noise levels in
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Ga-Pentixafor PET image reconstruction, a post-reconstruction Gaussian lter with a kernel of within 2–4mm is applied.
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