Journal article
Analysis of 2-carbon-11-thymidine blood metabolites in PET imaging
The Journal of nuclear medicine (1978), Vol.37(2), pp.290-296
1996
PMID: 8667064
Abstract
Carbon-11-thymidine labeled in the ring-2 position was used with PET to image tumor and tissue proliferation. Since thymidine is rapidly degraded in the body, one must consider the generation of metabolites to fully interpret the PET data.
Methods: We have measured the blood time-activity curves of thymidine and its metabolites in arterial blood samples. Blood was processed to obtain three input curves, including the total activity, the activity with CO2 removed and the fraction of CO2-free activity in intact thymidine (% Tdr).
Results: We found that CO2 reached a plateau of 65% (+/- 12%) of total blood activity by 11 min after injection. When a 1-min infusion of labeled thymidine is used, the time to 50% degradation to thymine and metabolites other than CO2 (measured in acidified samples by HPLC) was 2.9 +/- 0.6 min. We fit the results of the blood metabolism with a compartmental model. We found that we could accurately determine the % Tdr curve with as few as three measured points with an root mean square (RMS) error of 2% in the integrated curve, compared to the curve using all blood samples (mean of seven samples per patient). The integral of thymidine blood activity serves as the input to thymidine models, so similar errors could be expected in calculations of DNA synthetic rates. We found that the determination of CO2 could be accomplished with as few as five samples, with an RMS error of 4% in plateau %CO2 value.
Conclusion: While it is essential to take metabolites into account when interpreting results obtained with 11C-thymidine, the reproducibility of these degradation curves may allow the use of a limited number of samples to measure the catabolic products of thymidine. These data from the blood, along with tissue kinetic models, are needed to calculate DNA synthetic rates.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Analysis of 2-carbon-11-thymidine blood metabolites in PET imaging
- Creators
- Anthony F Shields - Univ. Washington, dep. medicine and imaging res. lab., United StatesDavid Mankoff - Univ. Washington, dep. medicine and imaging res. lab., United StatesMichael M Graham - Univ. Washington, dep. medicine and imaging res. lab., United StatesMinna Zheng - Univ. Washington, dep. medicine and imaging res. lab., United StatesSusan M Kozawa - Univ. Washington, dep. medicine and imaging res. lab., United StatesJeanne M Link - Univ. Washington, dep. medicine and imaging res. lab., United StatesKenneth A Krohn - Univ. Washington, dep. medicine and imaging res. lab., United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of nuclear medicine (1978), Vol.37(2), pp.290-296
- Publisher
- Society of Nuclear Medicine; Reston, VA
- PMID
- 8667064
- ISSN
- 0161-5505
- eISSN
- 1535-5667
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1996
- Academic Unit
- Radiology; Radiation Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984047665402771
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