Does (99m)Tc-Sestamibi in high-grade malignant brain tumors reflect blood-brain barrier damage only?
(99m)Tc-Sestamibi (MIBI) has been successfully applied in recurrent glioblastoma. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incremental diagnostic information of MIBI as a tumor-avid radiopharmaceutical compared with (99m)Tc-pertechnetate ((99m)Tc) as sole indicator of the integrity of the blood-brain barrier. Twenty-five patients with confirmed recurrent brain tumors were included. MIBI SPET was performed 10 min after injection of 555 MBq MIBI intravenously with a triple-headed gamma camera equipped with LE-UHR-PAR collimators over 360 degrees (3 degrees /step) and stored in a 128(2) matrix. Identical acquisition parameters were used for (99m)Tc SPET, which was acquired 3 h after injection of 740 MBq (99m)Tc. Normalized tumor uptake (NU) was calculated from attenuation-corrected transaxial slices. In addition, tumor/plexus, tumor/nasopharynx, and tumor/parotid gland ratios were assessed in both studies. No statistically significant differences were detected for the mean NU of tumor ti
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