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Neurological Nuclear Medicine

Neurological Nuclear Medicine. Department of Nuclear Medicine Renji Hospital. Brain Blood Circulation. Blood Brain Barrier, BBB. Brain Imaging Agents. 99m TcO4 - 99m Tc-GH 201 Tl 99m Tc-DTPA. Not penetrate through BBB. Brain Imaging Agents (Cont.). Penetrate through BBB. Perfusion.

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Neurological Nuclear Medicine

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  1. Neurological Nuclear Medicine Department of Nuclear Medicine Renji Hospital

  2. Brain Blood Circulation

  3. Blood Brain Barrier, BBB

  4. Brain Imaging Agents • 99mTcO4- • 99mTc-GH • 201Tl • 99mTc-DTPA Not penetrate through BBB

  5. Brain Imaging Agents (Cont.) Penetrate through BBB Perfusion • 99mTc-ECD • 99mTc-HMPAO • 123I-IMP Metabolic • 18F-FDG Receptor and Transporter • 11C-NMSP • 99mTc-TRODAT-1

  6. Requirements for penetrating through BBB Small molecule None electronically charged Lipophilic

  7. Brain Perfusion Imaging The injected tracer is freely diffusible from the blood pool into the brain. There is complete extraction of the tracer by the brain. Once taken up by the brain, the tracer is “trapped”, or that efflux from the brain is accounted for. Following the initial tracer uptake, there is no subsequent redistribution.

  8. Normal perfusion image

  9. Tomographic perfusion image of the brain

  10. Tomographic perfusion image of the brain

  11. Tomographic perfusion image of the brain

  12. Tomographic perfusion image of the brain

  13. Abnormal Patterns • Focal decreased uptake • Focal increased uptake • Crossed cerebellar diaschisis • Enlargement of white matter or midline shift • Structure disorder • Abnormal distribution of the tracer • cerebral atrophy • Dissymmetric distribution

  14. Visual Analysis

  15. Semi-quantitative Analysis

  16. Clinical Indications of Brain Perfusion Imaging • Cerebral ischemia • Dementia • Seizures • Alzheimer diseases • psychiatric diseases • Brain death • Parkinson's Disease

  17. Clinical Applications of Brain Perfusion Imaging

  18. Cerebral Vascular Diseases • Acute CNS Ischemia/Infarction • Transient Ischemic Attacks(TIA)

  19. Acute CNS Ischemia/Infarction • A focal or regional area of hypo- or absent perfusion on SPECT images. • Larger defects area on SPECT than those noted on CT. The defects represent a combination of a central zone of infarction surrounded by a penumbra zone of ischemia but potentially  viable tissue.

  20. AcuteCNS Ischemia/Infarction(Cont.) • Confirm the presence of cerebral infarction, monitor the effects of acute thrombolytic  therapy, and to predict stroke outcome . • Higher sensitive than CT in the early (first 24 hours) detection of  acute ischemia, sensitivity 88-95% vs. 20-63% for CT, MRI has a sensitivity of about 80% for the detection of acute  infarction .

  21. Subacute Phase Infarction • Size of the infarct may be grossly underestimated due to luxury perfusion • Luxury perfusion :uncoupling of flow and metabolism following an infarct. Apparently increased or normal tracer uptake despite the absence of metabolism in the involved area possibly related to either local breakdown in the blood-brain barrier or hyperemia from local tissue acidosis

  22. Crossed Cerebellar Diaschisis • Crossed cerebellar diaschisis (CCD): decreased cerebellar perfusion contralateral to the cortical infarct during the acute and subacute phases of middle cerebral artery territory strokes. • Mechanism:loss of axons interconnecting the infarcted cortical regions with other brain structures • intact vascular reserve:activity increase in these areas following the administration of diamox due to the increased perfusion to these areas.

  23. Crossed Cerebellar Diaschisis

  24. Transient Ischemic Attacks • It occurs in 10 to 20% of stroke patients. One third of these patients suffer a stroke within 5 years without treatment.

  25. Transient Ischemic Attacks(Cont.) • Single or multiple cerebral blood perfusion defect or abscent • Early detecting ischemia region with SPECT compared to CT or MRI. • Sensitivity is about 55-60% with SPECT, the sensitivity declines with time. • SPECT CBF stress test with Diamox has been shown to increase the likelihood of detection of residual blood flow changes after TIA.

  26. Transient Ischemic Attacks

  27. DEMENTIA

  28. Alzheimer's Dementia • Dementia affects 10% of people over the age of 60 years and Alzheimer's accounts for roughly 50% of these cases. Alzheimer's disease (AD) has a prevalence of 0.3% in patients aged 60-69 years, but increases to nearly 11% in 80-89 year olds . The mental degeneration associated with Alzheimer's is insidious and progressive memory loss is the most important symptom.

  29. Alzheimer's Dementia(cont.) • Very early stage: normal CBF perfusion • Early stage: unilateral or bilateral temporoparietal perfusion defect • Moderate to severe stage:bilateral temporoparietal perfusion defect • Advanced stage: bilateral temporoparietal and frontal lobe perfusion defect

  30. Alzheimer’s Dementia (SPECT)

  31. Alzheimer's Dementia(Cont.) • A correlation has been described between the severity of these defects, and the severity of the patient's dementia . • The cerebellum, primary visual areas, and primary sensorimotor areas along the central sulcus remain relatively intact. • SPECT perfusion imaging has a sensitivity of 63%, a specificity of 82%, a positive predictive value of 81%, a negative predictive value of 65%, and an accuracy of 71% for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's .

  32. Multi-infarct Dementia • Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is characterized clinically by multiple cerebral infarcts that occur sporadically and produce a step-wise deterioration in intellectual function. MID is the second most common cause of dementia in the elderly.

  33. Multi-infarct Dementia (Cont.) • multiple, bilateral, and randomly distributed cortical perfusion defects that follow vascular territories. The basal ganglia, motor, and sensory cortices may also be involved (spared in Alzheimer's).

  34. Pick's Disease (Frontal lobe dementia) • A rare frontal dementia • Symptoms usually include the gradual onset of confusion with respect to place and time, anomia, slowness of comprehension, loss of tact, and changes in personality and behavior. • SPECT images demonstrate bilateral, diffuse decreased frontal lobe perfusion extending to the cingulate gyrus.

  35. Epilepsy • Epilepsy is one of the most prevalent neurological disorders.Seizures can be classified as either partial (focal) or generalized. Partial seizures originate in a given area of the brain and can be divided intosimple (with no impairment of consciousness) and complex (with impairment of consciousness). • About 10-20% of patients with partial complex seizures have inadequate control on medical treatment.Patients unresponsive to anti-convulsant therapy may be surgical candidates which can render the patient seizure free.

  36. Epilepsy (Cont.) • Scalp EEG often fails to accurately localize the seizure focus and although depth EEG is much more accurate, it is also extremely invasive and suffers from regional under sampling . • CT and MRI have low sensitivity for seizure foci detection, 17% and 34% respectively. The role of brain SPECT is to localize the seizure focus.

  37. Epilepsy (Cont.) • Ictal Imaging: hyperperfusion at the seizure focus in 80 to 100% of patients. Crossed cerebellar hyperperfusion can also be identified in 75% of patients. Ipsilateral or diffuse cerebellar hyperperfusion may also be seen. Ipsilateral basal ganglia hyperperfusion is also common. • Ictal SPECT: sensitivities 81 to 93%. The positive predictive value for localizing a unilateral seizure focus can be as high as 97% (when the tracer was injected immediately after the seizure).

  38. Epilepsy (Cont.) • Inter-ictal Imaging:Inter-ictal (seizure free) SPECT studies will demonstrate an area of diminished tracer activity (hypoperfusion) at the seizure focus in up to 50% of patients. • Inter-ictal PET FDG studies demonstrate a focal area of hypometabolism in 60 to 70% of patients with normal MRI's. The area of hypometabolism is often much larger than the actual area of structural abnormality.

  39. Epilepsy (Cont.) • The sensitivity for localization of the ictus site using inter-ictal SPECT scanning ranges from 40 to 66%, which is less sensitive than post-ictal (70%) or ictal (80-90%) SPECT, and inter-ictal PET FDG (70%) imaging.

  40. Epilepsy Ictal Inter-ictal

  41. Brain Death • Lack of intracranial arterial flow: the carotid arteries are visualized in the neck, but there is an abrupt cut-off of activity at the skull base • Sagittal/Venous sinuses are not visualized on subsequent static images • The "hot nose" sign: due to increased flow in the external carotid circulation. • SPECT imaging in patients with brain death demonstrates no cerebral or cerebellar accumulation of the radiotracer

  42. Brain Death (dynamic) Normal perfusion Brain Death

  43. Brain Death (30 Min) Normal perfusion Brain Death

  44. CNS Trauma • SPECT is more sensitive than CT or MRI in detecting post traumatic CNS abnormalities both in the acute and remote stages. In the setting of acute trauma, small, non-focal frontal or occipital defects are associated with a favorable prognosis. Large or multifocal defects involving the parietal or temporal lobes, the cerebellum, or the brainstem are associated with an unfavorable prognosis.

  45. Psychiatric Disorders

  46. Psychiatric Disorders Schizophrenia • hypofrontality on both PET FDG and SPECT perfusion images (i.e., relative decreased frontal perfusion/metabolism). • Improved cortical activity in this region is seen following effective therapy

  47. Drug abuse • Cocaine abuser: multiple small perfusion defect in brain cortex • Chronic alcoholics:reversible decreasing frontal lobe flow that reverts to normal with abstinence

  48. Stress Test Various stress methods which help to detect mild or latent abnormality.

  49. Stress Methods

  50. Diamox Stress test Diamox (Acetazolamide, ACZ) • Inhibit carbonic anhydrase • CO2 concentration increase • Brain vascular dilation

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