Stereotactical normalization with multiple templates representative of normal and Parkinson-typical reduction of striatal uptake improves the discriminative power of automatic semi-quantitative analysis in dopamine transporter SPECT
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Abstract Background The specific binding ratio (SBR) of 123 I-FP-CIT in the putamen is widely used to support the interpretation of dopamine transporter (DAT) SPECT. Automatic methods for computation of the putamen SBR often include stereotactical normalization of the individual DAT-SPECT image to an anatomical standard space. This study compared using a single 123 I-FP-CIT template image as target for stereotactical normalization versus multiple templates representative of normal and different levels of Parkinson-typical reduction of striatal 123 I-FP-CIT uptake. Methods 1702 clinical 123 I-FP-CIT SPECT images were stereotactically normalized (affine) to the anatomical space of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) with SPM12 either using a single custom-made 123 I-FP-CIT template representative of normal striatal uptake or using eight different templates representative of normal and different levels of Parkinson-typical reduction of striatal FP-CIT uptake with and without attenuation and scatter correction. In the latter case, SPM finds the linear combination of the multiple templates that best matches the patient’s image. The putamen SBR was obtained using hottest voxels analysis in large unilateral regions-of-interest predefined in MNI space. The histogram of the putamen SBR in the whole sample was fitted by the sum of two Gaussians. The power to differentiate between reduced and normal SBR was estimated by the effect size of the distance between the two Gaussians computed as the differences between their mean values scaled to their pooled standard deviation. Results The effect size of the distance between the two Gaussians was 3.83 with the single template versus 3.96 with multiple templates for stereotactical normalization. Conclusions Multiple templates representative of normal and different levels of Parkinson-typical reduction for stereotactical normalization of DAT-SPECT might provide improved separation between normal and reduced putamen SBR that could result in slightly improved power for the detection of nigrostriatal degeneration.
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