摘要:Little is known about whether early-phase PET images of
18F-FP-CIT match those of amyloid PET. Here, we compared early-phase
18F-FP-CIT and
18F-flutemetamol PET images in patients who underwent both within a 1-month interval. The SUVR on early-phase
18F-FP-CIT PET (median, 0.86) was significantly lower than that of
18F-flutemetamol PET (median, 0.91,
p < 0.001) for total brain regions including all cerebral lobes and central structures. This significant difference persisted for each brain region except central structures (
p = 0.232). The SUVR of total brain regions obtained from early
18F-FP-CIT PET showed a very strong correlation with that of
18F-flutemetamol PET (
rho = 0.80,
p < 0.001). Among the kinetic parameters, only
R1 showed a statistically significant correlation between the two techniques for all brain regions (
rho = 0.89,
p < 0.001).
R1 from
18F-FP-CIT (median, 0.77) was significantly lower in all areas of the brain compared to
R1 from
18F-flutemetamol PET (median, 0.81,
p < 0.001).
18F-FP-CIT demonstrated lower uptake in cortical brain regions than
18F-flutemetamol on early-phase PET. However, both early-phase PETs demonstrated significant correlation of uptake.