Author |
김상은(Sang Eun Kim),최창운(Chang Woon Choi),이동수(Dong Soo Lee),정준기(June Key Chung),이명철(Myung Chul Lee),고창순(Chang Soon Koh),윤병우(Byung Woo Yoon),노재규(Jae Kyu Roh),정희원(Hee Won Jung), |
Abstract |
Thal1ium-201 (201TI) SPECT Studies were performed on a
normal volunteer and 12 patients with intracerebral
lesions: 3 patients with gliomas, 3 patients with
meningiomas, 1 patient each with metastatic tumor,
brain abscess, and cerebral infarction, and 3
postirradiation patients. (2 with metastatic tumors, I
with lymphoma). A 201T1 index, based on the ratio of
201T1 uptake in the brain lesion Versus the homologous
contralateral brain, was calculated and compared with
tumor histology and CT/MRI findings. The SPECT 201T1
Scan showed minimal uptake of tracer in a normal brain.
There was substantial uptake of 201T1 in high-grade
gliomas (index〉l.5) with little uptake in low-grade
lesions. A previously irradiated patient with recurrent
astrocytoma, in whom MRI study was unable to
distinguish tumor recurrence from necrosis, showed the
lesions with high 201T1 indices in both hemispheric
regions (2.50/1.93), suggesting tumor recurrence. Two
meningiomas and a metastatic tumor showed varying
degrees of 201T1 uptake (index 1.71-8.15), revealing
that 201Tl uptake is not exclusive to high-grade
gliomas. In 2 postirradiation patients with metastatic
tumors, no abnormal 201T1 uptake was found in the
cerebral lesions, shortly after the initiation of
radiation therapy or despite the persistence of
enhancing lesions-though improved-on MR images,
suggesting that 201T1 uptake may reflect the metabolic
and possibly clonogenic activities of tumors and the
brain 201T1 SPECT imaging might be valuable for the
evaluation of tumor responsiveness to the therapy and
for early detection of tumor recurrence. A patient with
brain abscess on antibiotic treatment, showing
increased uptake of 201T1 in the resolving
lesions(index 2.87/1.52) is discussed. In a patient
with cerebral infaraction, there was no abnormal uptake
of 201T1 in infarcted tissue. When using a threshold
index of 1.5, correlation rate between 201T1 uptake and
contrast enhancement of the cerebral lesions on CT/MRI
was 73%(8/11). In conclusions, the brain 201T1 SPECT
imaging may
be useful for assessment of tumor response to the
therapy and to predict low or high-grade lesions. |