Detection of insulinoma: one-stop pancreatic perfusion CT with calculated mean temporal images can replace the combination of bi-phasic plus perfusion scan
- 18 March 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Radiology
- Vol. 30 (8), 4164-4174
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-06657-4
Abstract
Objective To evaluate the feasibility of one-stop pancreatic perfusion CT with mean temporal (MT) imaging replacing the combination of a bi-phasic scan plus a perfusion scan to detect insulinoma. Material and methods Forty-five patients with suspected insulinoma, who underwent both biphasic and perfusion CT, were enrolled in this retrospective study. MT datasets including images for different delineation purposes were generated by averaging 3 dynamic datasets from perfusion CT, which are MTA for arterial, MTPV for portal vein and MTO for lesions. Two readers assessed the image quality and diagnostic performance separately for biphasic and MT datasets. Radiation doses were also assessed. Paired t tests, Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and McNemar’s tests were applied for comparison. Results Compared with bi-phasic CT images, image noise, SNR and CNR of the MTA and MTPV datasets were all non-inferior (noise and CNR of the portal vein, p = 0.565 and p = 0.227, respectively) or superior (p ≤ 0.001). The subjective image quality was better in the MTA and MTPV images (p < 0.001 to p = 0.004). The sensitivity and NPV of MT images were also better (95% vs 75% and 75% vs 37.5% for reader 1; 97.5% vs 72.5% and 85.7% vs 35.3% for reader 2). Omitting the bi-phasic scan resulted in a dose reduction of 25% ± 4%. Conclusion MT imaging can allow pancreatic perfusion CT to be used alone without the need for an additional bi-phasic CT in the detection of insulinoma. Key Points • Mean temporal images reconstructed from perfusion CT with an averaging technique reproduce usual bi-phasic images (arterial and portal phases). • The image quality of mean temporal images is non-inferior or superior to native bi-phasic CT. The sensitivity and NPV for the diagnosis of insulinoma are better for mean temporal images than for traditional bi-phasic CT. • Mean temporal imaging can allow pancreatic perfusion CT to be used alone without the need for an additional bi-phasic CT in the detection of insulinoma. Radiation dose saving is important.Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81871512)
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Initiative for Innovative Medicine (No. 2017-I2M-1-001)
- National Public Welfare Basic Scientific Research Program of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2018PT32003 and 2017PT32004)
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