Introduction: The goal of this study was to compare the glucose analog, 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose ([18F]-FDG), the amino acid analog, o-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-l-tyrosine ([18F]-FET) and nucleoside analog, 3'-[18F]fluoro-3'-deoxythymidine ([18F]-FLT) with regard to their feasibility for differentiating tumors from inflammation.
Methods: In Fisher rat models bearing both 9L tumor and inflammation, the biodistributions and positron emission tomography (PET) images of [18F]-FDG, [18F]-FET and [18F]-FLT at 60 min post injection were compared. Pretreatment with thymidine phosphorylase before injection of [18F]-FLT was performed.
Results: The tumor-to-blood (T/B) and tumor-to-muscle (T/M) ratios of [18F]-FDG were significantly higher than those of [18F]-FET and [18F]-FLT (P<.01); however, the accumulation of [18F]-FDG [1.23+/-0.52 percent injected dose per gram of tissue (%ID/g)] in inflammation was also elevated. T/B and T/M ratios of [18F]-FET (2.3+/-0.5 and 2.2+/-0.5) were higher than those of [18F]-FLT (1.6+/-0.6 and 1.6+/-0.5), and inflammation uptake of those tracers was very low (0.63+/-0.19 and 0.27+/-0.16 %ID/g, respectively). [18F]-FET and [18F]-FLT showed higher selectivity indices (tumor-to-inflammation ratio corrected background) than [18F]-FDG. In PET images, [18F]-FDG was found to be accumulated in both tumor and inflammation, but [18F]-FET and [18F]-FLT selectively localized in tumor.
Conclusion: Our data confirm the result of previous studies that [18F]-FET and [18F]-FLT are superior to [18F]-FDG in differentiating tumor from inflammation.
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