Application of the Lugano Classification for Initial Evaluation, Staging, and Response Assessment of Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: The PRoLoG Consensus Initiative (Part 2-Technical).

The aim of this initiative was to provide consensus recommendations from a consortium of academic and industry experts in the field of lymphoma and imaging for the consistent application of imaging assessment with the Lugano classification. Consensus was obtained through a series of meetings from July 2019 to October 2021 sponsored by the PINTaD (Pharma Imaging Network for Therapeutics and Diagnostics) as part of the ProLoG (INTaD espnse criteria in ymphoma wrking roup) consensus initiative. Consensus recommendations encompass all technical imaging aspects of the Lugano classification.

Application of the Lugano Classification for Initial Evaluation, Staging, and Response Assessment of Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: The PRoLoG Consensus Initiative (Part 1-Clinical).

Our objective was to provide consensus recommendations from a consortium of academic and industry experts in the field of lymphoma and imaging for consistent application of the Lugano classification. Consensus was obtained through a series of meetings from July 2019 until September 2021 sponsored by the Pharma Imaging Network for Therapeutics and Diagnostics (PINTaD) as part of the PINTaD Response Criteria in Lymphoma Working Group (PRoLoG) consensus initiative. Consensus recommendations clarified technical considerations for PET/CT and diagnostic CT from the Lugano classification, including updating the FDG avidity of different lymphoma entities, clarifying the response nomenclature, and refining lesion classification and scoring, especially with regard to scores 4 and 5 and the X category of the 5-point scale.

A novel read methodology to evaluate the optimal dose of Ga-satoreotide trizoxetan as a PET imaging agent in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: a phase II clinical trial.

Background: Ga-satoreotide trizoxetan is a novel somatostatin receptor antagonist exhibiting higher tumour-to-background ratios and sensitivity compared to Ga-DOTATOC. This randomised, 2 × 3 factorial, phase II study aimed to confirm the optimal peptide mass and radioactivity ranges for Ga-satoreotide trizoxetan, using binary visual reading. To that end, 24 patients with metastatic gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours received 5-20 µg of Ga-satoreotide trizoxetan on day 1 of the study and 30-45 µg on day 16-22, with one of three gallium-68  radioactivity ranges (40-80, 100-140, or 160-200 MBq) per visit.

Pre- and per-treatment 18F-FDG PET/CT parameters to predict recurrence and survival in cervical cancer.

Purpose: To describe the evolution and to assess the predictive value of metabolic parameters with different SUV threshold segmentations calculated from two 18F-FDG-PET/CT, one prior to and the other one during concomitant chemoradiation therapy (CCRT), for locally-advanced cervical cancer (LACC).

Material And Methods: 53 patients treated for LACC by CCRT underwent FDG-PET/CT before treatment (PET1) and another one at 40Gy (PET2). The PET analyzed parameters were: maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), metabolic tumor volume (MTV), and total lesion glycolysis (TLG).

Detection of bladder metabolic artifacts in (18)F-FDG PET imaging.

Positron emission tomography using (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG-PET) is a widely used imaging modality in oncology. It enables significant functional information to be included in analyses of anatomical data provided by other image modalities. Although PET offers high sensitivity in detecting suspected malignant metabolism, (18)F-FDG uptake is not tumor-specific and can also be fixed in surrounding healthy tissue, which may consequently be mistaken as cancerous.

Weighted quantification of ¹⁸F-FDG tumor metabolism activity using fuzzy-thresholding to predict post-treatment tumor recurrence.

Cervical cancer is one of the most common cancer to affect women worldwide. Despite the efficiency of radiotherapy treatment, some patients present post-treatment tumor recurrence which increases the risk of death. Early outcome prediction could help oncologists to adapt the treatment.

Inter-Method Performance Study of Tumor Volumetry Assessment on Computed Tomography Test-Retest Data.

Rationale And Objectives: Tumor volume change has potential as a biomarker for diagnosis, therapy planning, and treatment response. Precision was evaluated and compared among semiautomated lung tumor volume measurement algorithms from clinical thoracic computed tomography data sets. The results inform approaches and testing requirements for establishing conformance with the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) Computed Tomography Volumetry Profile.