Background and purpose: Although FDG tumor imaging has been applied in clinic widely
dual-phase imaging can provide much more information about the FDG uptaking of pulmonary lesions. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the usefulness of dual-phase
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F-FDG coincidence detection SPECT/CT imaging in the differential diagnosis of the pulmonary lesions. M
ethods: There were 28 patients with pulmonary lesions which were detected by CT. All the patients undertook the SPECT/CT imaging at 2 time-phases respectively: early imaging at 40-60 min and delayed imaging at 2-3 h after the intravenous injection of FDG. Data processing: calculating the radio of T and N in early and delayed imaging respectively; T: The radioactive count of the lesions; N: The radioactive count of the normal tissue; and the change rate: ΔT/N. ROC was used to find out the threshold of T
1
/N
1
T
2
/N
2
及ΔT/N in the differential diagnosis between benign and malignant lesions. AUC was used to evaluate the diagnosis value of the dual-phase and single-phase imaging. Results: The threshold of T1/N1 in early imaging was 2.65
whereas AUC was 0.767. The sensitivity
specificity and accuracy were 83.3%
30% and 64.3%
respectively. The threshold of T
2
/N
2
in delayed imaging was 3.14
whereas AUC was 0.847. The sensitivity
specificity and accuracy were 94.4%
60.0% and 82.1%
respectively. The threshold of ΔT/N in delayed imaging was 16.9%
whereas AUC is 0.950. The sensitivity
specificity and accuracy were 88.5%
71.4% and 86.2%
respectively. Conclusion: Dual-phase
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F-FDG coincidence detection SPECT/CT imaging has much higher accuracy and specificity. However it still has false positivity
and should be analyzed with CT and clinical history.