Whole body planar and 3D quantitative imaging after 177Lu-DOTATATE on CZT SPECT/CT device with MEHRS collimator. First report

Hell J Nucl Med. 2021 May-Aug;24(2):165-166. doi: 10.1967/s002449912361. Epub 2021 Aug 6.

Abstract

Lutetium-177 (177Lu)-based post-therapeutic imaging allows visualization of treated lesions andabsorbed dose measurement. There is an increasing number of cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) gamma-cameras in nuclear medicine departments but until now these devices were not adapted to the medium-energy emission of 177Lu photons. We present here in the first reported images acquired with a new collimator designed for CZT gamma-camera compared to a conventional sodium iodide (NaI) (Tl) gamma-camera. Post-therapeutic 177Lu-DOTATATE imaging on a CZT device with a medium energy high resolution (MEHRS)-collimator are promising and support the widespread of both 177Lu-based peptide-receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) and CZT gamma-cameras.

MeSH terms

  • Cadmium
  • Humans
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed Tomography
  • Tellurium*
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*
  • Zinc

Substances

  • CdZnTe
  • copper dotatate CU-64
  • Cadmium
  • Zinc
  • Tellurium