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Usefulness of Scan Position Change on Dual Time Point PET-CT in Pancreas Cancer

췌장암 Dual Time Point PET/CT 검사에서 Scan Position Change의 유용성 평가

  • Chang, Boseok (Department of Image Information Engineering, Pusan National University of Pusan) ;
  • Kim, Jae Ho (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pusan National University of Pusan)
  • 장보석 (부산대학교 영상정보공학과) ;
  • 김재호 (부산대학교 전자전기공학과)
  • Received : 2016.06.08
  • Accepted : 2016.08.31
  • Published : 2016.08.31

Abstract

Despite of the development of medical equipments and technology. Pancreatic cancer has maked high false positive rate and low survival rate compared to other cancers. Therefore, early catch of pancreatic cancer is the only way to enhance the viability. It is important to find the exact location of the pancreas cancer in early stage. The method of optimum scan for early detection of pancreatic cancer on PET/CT exam is proposed. Examined the anatomical region that potentially can be missing from the supine position of ordinary pet/ct exam. The characteristics and usefulness of angle variation ($0^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, $60^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$) of patients scan position is analyzed. The proposed scan method (named JJ-projection) is bringing advantage of anatomical discrimination by separating stomach, liver, gallbladder duodenum and pancreas. ROC curve analysis is shows to advantage of the JJ-Projection method. The sensitivity has increased 4.6% than the supine delay scan method, the results sensitivity has increased from 91% to 95.2%. The specificity has increased from 75.1% to 84%. Compared with the results observed in cancer by biological biopsy, The accuracy has increased from 86.8% to 94.1%.

의료장비와 기술의 발달에도 불구하고 췌장암만 유일하게 기타 암질환과 비교하면 오진률이 높고 생존률이 낮은 질환이다. 따라서 췌장암은 조기 발견만이 생존율을 높일 수 있는 유일한 방법이며 췌장암의 정확한 위치를 찾는 것이 중요하다. Dual Point PET/CT 검사를 이용해서 췌장암의 조기 발견을 위한 최적의 Scan method를 제안하였다. PET/CT 검사의 Supine position에서 놓칠 수 있는 해부학적 영역을 환자의 position을 $0^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, $60^{\circ}$ $75^{\circ}$ 변화에 따른 영상의 특징 및 유효성을 분석하였다. 그 결과 $90^{\circ}$ lateral recumbent position Scan에서 Pancreas tail 판별의 유용성을 발견하였다. Dual Point PET/CT 검사에서 상복부 특히 해부학적 구조상 췌장처럼 인접 장기와 중첩이 있는 경우, 췌장암이 의심될 때 PET/CT 지연검사에서 환자에게 충분한 수분섭취를 한 후 환자의 Position을 테이블과 수직 상태로 돌려 Lt 또는 Rt lateral Recumbent position 상태에서 PET/CT Scan을 시행하므로 위장, 간, 담낭 십이지장, 췌장 등의 장기를 이격시켜 해부학적 판별에 이점을 주는 검사방법 (JJ-Projection: lateral recumbent position scan)을 개발하였다. ROC curve 분석에서 JJ-Projection방법이 기존의 Supine scan 방식에서 얻은 영상보다 민감도가 95.2% 나타났다. 이것은 기존의 검사방식과 비교해볼 때 4.6 % 증가 하였다. 특이도는 87.5%로 6.9% 증가하였다. 조직검사로 생물학적 암으로 확정된 결과치와 비교해 볼 때 정확도는 94.1%로 기존 방식 86%에 비해 8.41 % 증가하였다. 그러므로 Dual Time Point PET/CT를 이용한 췌장암 판별 검사를 할 때 Delay scan에서 lateral recumbent position로 변경해서 Scan 하는 것이 기존의 일반적인 방법인 Supine position Scan보다 췌장암 조기 판별에 유용한 정보를 줄 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

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