Division of Nuclear Medicine, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, MSC 8223-0019-10, 510 S. Kingshighway Blvd, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Pediatr Radiol. 2024 Sep;54(10):1589-1602. doi: 10.1007/s00247-024-06011-6. Epub 2024 Aug 10.
In patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, difficulties in identifying the epileptogenic zone are well known to correlate with poorer clinical outcomes post-surgery. The integration of PET and MRI in the presurgical assessment of pediatric patients likely improves diagnostic precision by confirming or widening treatment targets. PET and MRI together offer superior insights compared to either modality alone. For instance, PET highlights abnormal glucose metabolism, while MRI precisely localizes structural anomalies, providing a comprehensive understanding of the epileptogenic zone. Furthermore, both methodologies, whether utilized through simultaneous PET/MRI scanning or the co-registration of separately acquired PET and MRI data, present unique advantages, having complementary roles in lesional and non-lesional cases. Simultaneous FDG-PET/MRI provides precise co-registration of functional (PET) and structural (MR) imaging in a convenient one-stop-shop approach, which minimizes sedation time and reduces radiation exposure in children. Commercially available fusion software that allows retrospective co-registration of separately acquired PET and MRI images is a commonly used alternative. This review provides an overview and illustrative cases that highlight the role of combining 18F-FDG-PET and MRI imaging and shares the authors' decade-long experience utilizing simultaneous PET/MRI in the presurgical evaluation of pediatric epilepsy.
在耐药性癫痫患者中,众所周知,识别致痫区的困难与手术后较差的临床结果相关。PET 和 MRI 在儿科患者术前评估中的整合可能通过确认或扩大治疗目标来提高诊断精度。PET 和 MRI 联合使用提供了比单独使用任何一种模态更优越的见解。例如,PET 突出显示异常葡萄糖代谢,而 MRI 精确定位结构异常,全面了解致痫区。此外,这两种方法,无论是通过同时进行的 PET/MRI 扫描还是对单独获取的 PET 和 MRI 数据进行配准来实现,都具有独特的优势,在病变和非病变情况下具有互补作用。同时进行的 FDG-PET/MRI 以一种方便的一站式方法提供了功能(PET)和结构(MR)成像的精确配准,最大限度地减少了儿童镇静时间并降低了辐射暴露。商业上可用的融合软件允许对单独获取的 PET 和 MRI 图像进行回顾性配准,这是一种常用的替代方法。这篇综述提供了一个概述和说明性病例,强调了结合 18F-FDG-PET 和 MRI 成像的作用,并分享了作者在儿童癫痫术前评估中使用同时进行的 PET/MRI 的十年经验。
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