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Fan AP, An H, Moradi F, Rosenberg J, Ishii Y, Nariai T, Okazawa H, Zaharchuk G. Quantification of brain oxygen extraction and metabolism with [ 15O]-gas PET: A technical review in the era of PET/MRI. Neuroimage 2020; 220:117136. [PMID: 32634594 PMCID: PMC7592419 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Revised: 06/15/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2) are key cerebral physiological parameters to identify at-risk cerebrovascular patients and understand brain health and function. PET imaging with [15O]-oxygen tracers, either through continuous or bolus inhalation, provides non-invasive assessment of OEF and CMRO2. Numerous tracer delivery, PET acquisition, and kinetic modeling approaches have been adopted to map brain oxygenation. The purpose of this technical review is to critically evaluate different methods for [15O]-gas PET and its impact on the accuracy and reproducibility of OEF and CMRO2 measurements. We perform a meta-analysis of brain oxygenation PET studies in healthy volunteers and compare between continuous and bolus inhalation techniques. We also describe OEF metrics that have been used to detect hemodynamic impairment in cerebrovascular disease. For these patients, advanced techniques to accelerate the PET scans and potential synthesis with MRI to avoid arterial blood sampling would facilitate broader use of [15O]-oxygen PET for brain physiological assessment.
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- Audrey P Fan
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Neurology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Biomedical Imaging Research Center, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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Marchal G, Benali K, Iglesias S, Viader F, Derlon JM, Baron JC. Voxel-based mapping of irreversible ischaemic damage with PET in acute stroke. Brain 1999; 122 ( Pt 12):2387-400. [PMID: 10581231 DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.12.2387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Objective mapping of irreversible tissue damage in the acute stage of ischaemic stroke would be useful for prognosis and in assessing the efficacy of therapeutic manoeuvres in impeding extension of infarction. From our database of 30 patients studied with 15O-PET within 5-18 h after onset of first-ever middle cerebral artery territory stroke, we extracted a subgroup of 19 survivors (age 74.6 +/- 8.5 years) in whom late CT coregistered with PET was available to determine final infarct topography. By means of a voxel-based analysis of the PET data, we determined putative thresholds for irreversible tissue damage as the lower limit of the 95% confidence interval calculated from all voxels within the ultimately non-infarcted brain parenchyma ipsilateral to the insult. The following values were found: 8.43 ml/100 ml/min, 0.87 ml/100 ml/min, 1.64 ml/100 ml, 0.27 and 2.21/min, for cerebral blood flow (CBF), oxygen consumption (CMRO2), blood volume (CBV), oxygen extraction fraction and the ratio CBF : CBV, respectively. Voxels below these thresholds occurred significantly more frequently in the final infarct region than in the non-infarcted parenchyma for CBF and CMRO2 (P = 0.016 and P = 0.0045, respectively, Wilcoxon test), but not for the other PET variables. Furthermore, with both CBF and CMRO2, the percentage of irreversible tissue damage voxels in the affected hemisphere relative to the opposite hemisphere was significantly positively correlated to both the volume of final infarct and the neurological outcome at 2 months (all P < 0.005, Spearman ranked test). These findings validate our voxel-based CBF and CMRO2 thresholds for probabilistic mapping of irreversible tissue damage within the 5-18 h interval after stroke onset; however, whether they would be applicable to earlier intervals remains to be determined. Transfer of our procedure for determination of irreversible tissue damage thresholds to other imaging modalities such as single proton emission computed tomography and diffusion-weighted MRI should be straightforward.
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- G Marchal
- INSERM U320, CYCERON, University Hospital, University of Caen, Caen, France
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Derdeyn CP, Videen TO, Simmons NR, Yundt KD, Fritsch SM, Grubb RL, Powers WJ. Count-based PET method for predicting ischemic stroke in patients with symptomatic carotid arterial occlusion. Radiology 1999; 212:499-506. [PMID: 10429709 DOI: 10.1148/radiology.212.2.r99au27499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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PURPOSE To test the ability of a count-based positron emission tomographic (PET) method, without arterial sampling, for the measurement of regional cerebral oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) to predict ischemic stroke in patients with symptomatic carotid arterial occlusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS The outcome analysis of a blinded prospective study designed to determine if increased OEF was an independent predictor of stroke in patients with symptoms and with carotid occlusion was repeated by substituting a count-based method of OEF measurement for the original quantitative technique. The performance of the quantitative and count-based methods was assessed by using Kaplan-Meier cumulative survival functions (log-rank, [p < .05]). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for both methods were generated. RESULTS Thirteen ipsilateral strokes occurred during a mean follow-up of 3.1 years for 81 patients. All ipsilateral strokes occurred in 50 patients with increased count-based OEF (P = .002, sensitivity 100%, specificity 46%). Sixty-eight patients underwent complete quantitative studies, which allowed comparison of OEF methods. Both the count-based and the quantitative methods were predictive of stroke in this subgroup (P = .005 and .025, respectively). ROC analysis demonstrated a greater area under the curve for the count-based OEF method. CONCLUSION Count-based PET measurement of OEF without arterial sampling accurately predicts stroke in patients with carotid occlusion.
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- C P Derdeyn
- Section of Neuroradiology, Mallinckrodt Institute, St Louis, MO, USA.
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Berthezène Y, Nighoghossian N, Damien J, Derex L, Trouillas P, Froment JC. Effects of thalamic hemorrhage on cortical hemodynamic parameters assessed by perfusion MR imaging: preliminary report. J Neurol Sci 1998; 157:67-72. [PMID: 9600679 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(98)00064-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Thalamic lesions may induce a diffuse hypometabolism and subsequent decrease of cortical cerebral blood flow (rCBF) and cerebral blood volume (rCBV). Up to now PET was used to assess these changes. However this latter method cannot be applied routinely to stroke patients because it is expensive and not currently available. The purpose of this preliminary study was to evaluate the effects of 'pure metabolic depression' induced by thalamic stroke on rCBV and rCBF by using a non invasive method perfusion-MRI. Two patients experienced aphasia, with motor and sensory impairment related to thalamic hemorrhage. Four weeks later, dynamic T2*-weighted echo planar imaging was used to produce perfusion-MR images during an intravenous bolus injection of gadopentetate dimeglumine. A decrease of cortical rCBV and rCBF mainly confined to sensorimotor cortex was observed in both cases ipsilateral to the lesion. Although a sequential assessment of this abnormalities is needed in a larger series of patients in order to establish relevant correlations with neurological status, this preliminary study indicates that perfusion-MRI might be a practical and promising tool in the assessment of cortical rCBV and rCBF changes.
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- Y Berthezène
- Department of Radiology, CREATIS UMR CNRS 5515, Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, Lyon, France.
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Eustache F, Desgranges B, Petit-Taboué MC, de la Sayette V, Piot V, Sablé C, Marchal G, Baron JC. Transient global amnesia: implicit/explicit memory dissociation and PET assessment of brain perfusion and oxygen metabolism in the acute stage. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1997; 63:357-67. [PMID: 9328254 PMCID: PMC2169715 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.63.3.357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To assess explicit memory and two components of implicit memory--that is, perceptual-verbal skill learning and lexical-semantic priming effects--as well as resting cerebral blood flow (CBF) and oxygen metabolism (CMRO2) during the acute phase of transient global amnesia. METHODS In a 59 year old woman, whose amnestic episode fulfilled all current criteria for transient global amnesia, a neuropsychological protocol was administered, including word learning, story recall, categorical fluency, mirror reading, and word stem completion tasks. PET was performed using the (15)O steady state inhalation method, while the patient still exhibited severe anterograde amnesia and was interleaved with the cognitive tests. RESULTS There was a clear cut dissociation between impaired long term episodic memory and preserved implicit memory for its two components. Categorical fluency was significantly altered, suggesting word retrieval strategy--rather than semantic memory--impairment. The PET study disclosed a reduced CMRO2 with relatively or fully preserved CBF in the left prefrontotemporal cortex and lentiform nucleus, and the reverse pattern over the left occipital cortex. CONCLUSIONS The PET alterations with patchy CBF-CMRO2 uncoupling would be compatible with a migraine-like phenomenon and indicate that the isolated assessment of perfusion in transient global amnesia may be misleading. The pattern of metabolic depression, with sparing of the hippocampal area, is one among the distinct patterns of brain dysfunction that underlie the (apparently) uniform clinical presentation of transient global amnesia. The finding of a left prefrontal hypometabolism in the face of impaired episodic memory and altered verbal fluency would fit present day concepts from PET activation studies about the role of this area in episodic and semantic memory encoding/retrieval. Likewise, the changes affecting the lenticular nucleus but sparing the caudate would be consistent with the normal performance in perceptual-verbal skill learning. Finally, unaltered lexical-semantic priming effects, despite left temporal cortex hypometabolism, suggest that these processes are subserved by a more distributed neocortical network.
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- F Eustache
- INSERM U320, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Côte de Nacre, University of Caen, France
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Schumann P, Touzani O, Young AR, Verard L, Morello R, MacKenzie ET. Effects of indomethacin on cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism: a positron emission tomographic investigation in the anaesthetized baboon. Neurosci Lett 1996; 220:137-41. [PMID: 8981492 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(96)13210-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The aim of this study was to clarify the controversy about the effects of indomethacin on the coupling of cerebral blood flow (CBF) to cerebral oxygen metabolism (CMRO2). CBF, blood volume (CBV), oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and CMRO2 were measured by positron emission tomography (PET) in five anaesthetized baboons before and during an i.v. administration of indomethacin (bolus 20 mg/kg followed by perfusion 10 mg/kg.h). Administration of indomethacin resulted in a marked and homogenous decrease of CBF in every region analysed (-28% to -40%) and a moderate reduction in CBV (-8% to -16%). In contrast, CMRO2 displayed a small increase in thalamus and pons (+10% and +13%, respectively). OEF increased greatly in all structures studied (+59% to +96%). These findings show that the potent cerebrovascular effects of indomethacin are not related to a decrease in CMRO2 as measured through the use of PET.
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- P Schumann
- University of Caen, CNRS URA 1829, France.
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Chabriat H, Sachon C, Levasseur M, Grimaldi A, Pappata S, Rougemont D, Masure MC, De Recondo A, Samson Y. Brain metabolism after recurrent insulin induced hypoglycaemic episodes: a PET study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994; 57:1360-5. [PMID: 7964812 PMCID: PMC1073187 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.57.11.1360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Neuropsychological testing was carried out and the rate of oxygen metabolism in the brain was measured by PET in 15 highly selected patients with type 1 diabetes. The aim was to investigate the impact on the brain of hypoglycaemic comas resulting from insulin treatment. No significant difference was found between nine patients with a history of more than 10 hypoglycaemic comas and six others who denied any history of such events. These data suggest that intensified insulin treatment, although increasing the frequency of hypoglycaemic coma, may not always be harmful for the brain. This may be explained by the limited duration of hypoglycaemic coma induced by conventional insulin treatment.
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- H Chabriat
- Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, Dripp, CEA, Orsay, France
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Serrati C, Marchal G, Rioux P, Viader F, Petit-Taboué MC, Lochon P, Luet D, Derlon JM, Baron JC. Contralateral cerebellar hypometabolism: a predictor for stroke outcome? J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1994; 57:174-9. [PMID: 8126499 PMCID: PMC1072444 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.57.2.174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Contralateral cerebellar hypometabolism (CCH) is a well established remote functional effect of cerebral damage. Because CCH has been reported to be reversible in acute stroke in at least some patients, the value of cerebellar metabolic asymmetry (CbMA; a reflection of the degree of CCH) as a predictor of stroke outcome has been assessed. Measurements of cerebellar oxygen consumption were performed by positron emission tomography (PET) in 16 patients within 5-30 hours of onset of their first ever middle cerebral artery territory stroke, and again 13-56 days later in 12 survivors. The neurological state was quantified at the time of each PET study and at day 60, with both the Mathew and Orgogozo scales. In the early PET study, the CbMAs ranged from around 0% to nearly 50% (individually significant at p < 0.05 in 9/16 patients) but were neither strongly nor consistently correlated with neurological outcome or recovery at day 60. Similarly, the changes in CbMAs from the early to the late PET study were not correlated with the concomitant neurological evolution. At the late PET study, however, there were excellent positive correlations between CbMAs and both neurological status and size of infarction (assessed by CT in the chronic stage). The correlation with neurological status was explained by the correlation with size of infarction. The poor predictive value of CbMAs in the early PET study may be partly because the cerebral metabolic disturbance might still be evolving at this early stage in some cases. Despite this lack of a strong quantitative link between CbMAs at the early PET study and outcome, the outcome was good in all the patients who did not exhibit significant CCH, suggesting that lack of CCH may predict good outcome in acute middle cerebral artery stroke.
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Weyne J, De Ley G, Demeester G, Vandecasteele C, Vermeulen FL, Donche H, Deman J. PET studies of changes in cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism after unilateral microembolization of the brain in anesthetized dogs. Stroke 1987; 18:128-37. [PMID: 3492788 DOI: 10.1161/01.str.18.1.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism have been measured with the steady-state oxygen-15 technique and positron emission tomography in anesthetized dogs. Regional microembolization was induced by infusing Sephadex particles (diameter, 40 micron) into one of the common carotid arteries. In the first series of experiments, 2.5 mg Sephadex was infused, and the dogs were examined within 3-4 hours after embolization. In a second series 0.55 mg Sephadex was infused, and the dogs were examined either in the first 3-4 hours or 24-48 hours after embolization. Cerebral blood flow, oxygen extraction ratio, and cerebral oxygen utilization were measured at 3 PCO2 levels. In the acute experiments, cerebral oxygen utilization in the embolized hemisphere was 6 (0.55 mg Sephadex) and 25% (2.5 mg Sephadex) lower than on the contralateral side. While cerebral blood flow was symmetrically distributed in normocapnia and hypocapnia, it was 9 (0.55 mg Sephadex) and 35% (2.5 mg Sephadex) lower in the embolized hemisphere during hypercapnia. In normocapnia and hypocapnia the lower oxygen utilization in the embolized hemisphere was characterized by a lower oxygen extraction ratio, and in hypercapnia by an unchanged (0.55 mg Sephadex) or by a higher (2.5 mg Sephadex) extraction ratio. The different effect on oxygen extraction ratio in the control and embolized hemispheres resulted in images of uncoupling between perfusion and oxygen demand that varied according to the PCO2. The experiments also showed a fall in cerebral blood flow in the embolized hemisphere after 3-4 hours, indicating delayed hypoperfusion. After 24-48 hours, blood flow was about 10% higher in the embolized hemisphere, and this was observed at the 3 PCO2 levels, while the oxygen extraction ratio was systematically lower. Oxygen utilization in the embolized hemisphere was depressed to practically the same extent as in acute experiments. It can be concluded that between 4 and 24 hours after microembolization the cerebral microcirculation shows important changes, with installation of luxury perfusion in the face of an unchanging decreased oxygen metabolism.
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