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Small Animal ImagingBenefits and Challenges
William C. Eckelman, PhDMolecular Tracer, LLC
Professor of Radiology, UCSDChair SAC, Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals
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Definitions: Molecular Imaging
• The term molecular imaging can be broadly definedas the in vivo character ization and measurement ofbiologic processes at the cellular and molecularlevel. [Weissleder & Mahmood, Radiology 2001].
• MI techniques directly or indirectly monitor andrecord the spatiotemporal distr ibution of molecularor cellular processes for biochemical, biologic,diagnostic, or therapeutic applications [Thakur &Lentle, Radiology 2005].
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Imaging & “ Molecular Targeting”
• Interactions between a probe and a proteintarget using pre-genomic techniques.– “ Biochemical probes” such as iodide (~50
years), receptor binding radiotracers andmonoclonal antibodies (~25 years) fromautopsy, linkage and drug efficacy, etc.
• Interactions between a probe and a proteintarget using post-genomic techniques.– Molecular biology, proteomics, genomics,
antisense, repor ter genes, protein-proteininteractions. More targets (500 2000-3000)
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• ATLAS picture
ATLAS scannerAdvanced Technology Laboratory Animal Scanner
ATLAS scannerAdvanced Technology Laboratory Animal Scanner
� 11.8 cm diameter aper ture
� 2 cm axial field-of-view
� 18 phoswich detector modulesconsisting of 8 mm of LGSO and 7 mmof GSO (Hitachi, Japan)
� Reduced radial resolution loss withincreasing radius
� Improved spatial sampling� Other features:
� dynamic imaging
� whole-body imaging
� routine 3D OSEM reconstruction
Technical Character istics
� High sensitivity 1.8% (250-700 keV)2.7% (100-700 keV)
� High Resolution 1.8 mm (FBP)1.5 mm (3D OSEM)
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Rat Brain with [18F]FDG
Coronal Transverse Transverse
eXplore Vista
NIH ATLAS
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The Goal of Small Animal Imaging
• To be able to carry out exper iments in rodentsthat are presently being carr ied out in humansincluding:– Pharmacokinetics– Repeat Studies in the same animal– Determination of biochemical parameters for
radioligands
• To replace single-time-point dissection andautoradiography, which do not easily leadthemselves to the above capabilities.
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Benefits --- and --- Challenges
• Decreased use ofanimals
• Statistical Advantage
• Complete kinetics
• Detailed biochemicalparameters
• Screening of DrugCandidates
• Radioactive DoseRequirements
• Mass Requirements
• Blood Volume
• Anesthesia
• Bolus vs. Infusion
• Sensitivity for TACvs. Images
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Why small animal PET scanning?
• The need to replace, reduce, and refine animalusage (Russell & Burch, 1959).
• The availability (and expense) of var iousanimal models, mostly in mice.
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Benefits --- and --- Challenges
• Decreased use ofanimals
• Statistical Advantage– Paired Statistics
• Complete kinetics
• Detailed biochemicalparameters
• Screening of DrugCandidates
• Radioactive DoseRequirements
• Mass Requirements
• Blood Volume
• Anesthesia
• Bolus vs. Infusion
• Sensitivity for TACvs. Images
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Benefits --- and --- Challenges
• Decreased use ofanimals
• Statistical Advantage
• Complete kinetics
• Detailed biochemicalparameters
• Screening of DrugCandidates
• Radioactive DoseRequirements
• Mass Requirements
• Blood Volume
• Anesthesia
• Bolus vs. Infusion
• Sensitivity for TACvs. Images
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Small animal imaging with ATLAS:can we reproduce human studies?
• PET scans of Target Tissue– With and without anesthesia
• Sensitivity for anatomical definition (PET/CT)• Sensitivity for time activity curves.
• Input Function• Blood• Plasma• Metabolites
– % parent– %ID parent
• Validation vs. Ex Vivo dissection orphosphor imaging.
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Small animal imaging with ATLAS:can we reproduce human studies?
• Methods for [18F]FDG :– PET scans
• following a bolus of ~48 MBq (1.3 mCi), [18F]FDG wereper formed in rats with or without isoflurane.
– Input Function• Arter ial blood sampling was carr ied out throughout the uptake
per iod. Plasma was counted.
– Validation:• At 60 min the rat was killed, and the brain was rapidly removed
and dissected into 5 structures (thalamus, cortex , brain stem,cerebellum, and half brain).
• Activity in the tissue samples was compared to the mean activityof the last 5 min of calibrated PET data.
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Alternative to IV injection, bloodsampling and stress ?
• Intraper itonealinjection– Normalize by var ious
parameters = 15%CV
– Normalize by wholebrain radioactivity =5%CV
– AUC plasmacorrelated with wholebrain uptake.
Marsteller et al. Nucl Med Biol. 2006
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[18F]FDG PET Image of the brain of a ratscanned for 60 min after a 45 min uptake
per iod.
Taken fromShimoji et al. JNucl Med 2004.
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Patlak plot of the TAC for the cerebellum, cor tex, and wholebrain. On the abscissa is the normalized plasma activity,
θθθθ(T)=Integral Cp*(t) dt /Cp*(T), where Cp* is the ar ter ial plasmaconcentration of [18F]FDG. Tissue activity in each region, Ci* ,
divided by the plasma activity is plotted on the ordinate.
CerebellumCortexWhole Brain
[18F]FDG uptake in an anesthesized rat over 60 min.
Ci*
(T)
/Cp*
(T)
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Compar ison between direct tissue countingand activity obtained from [18F]FDG/PET
Recovery Rate*Bodyweight
(g)
InjectedDose
MBq (mCi)WholeBrain
Cor tex Thalamus Cerebellum BrainStem
Mean ±SD 241 ± 18
49.9 ± 10.5
(1.35 ± 0.28)
1.01
± 0.17
0.90
± 0.19
0.99
± 0.04
0.84
± 0.05
1.01
± 0.24
Correlation coefficient betweendirect tissue counting and activi ty
obtained from PET images0.71 0.73 0.99 0.96 0.43
Recovery rate was determined as (activity in MBq/cc in PET image acquired 55-60 min
after injection of [18F]FDG) / (activity in dissected tissue in MBq/cc). Nine studies were compared.
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Conclusions Using [18F]FDG/PET andATLAS Small Animal Imaging
• ATLAS is a high resolution & high sensitivityscanner .
• The plasma input function can be obtainedbecause only FDG is present in blood. Now weuse intraper itoneal injection with normalization(SUV).
• We do have the sensitivity for time activity curvetime points, e.g., Patlak plots.
• The glucose metabolism rate agrees with previousautoradiographic studies.
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Benefits --- and --- Challenges
• Decreased use ofanimals
• Statistical Advantage
• Complete kinetics
• Detailed biochemicalparameters
• Screening of DrugCandidates
• Radioactive DoseRequirements
• Mass Requirements
• Blood Volume
• Bolus vs. Infusion
• Sensitivity for TACvs. Images
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Mass and Dose (A) Requirements
• Rodents are 1/280 in size (0.250/70). < activity• Radioactivity in human voxel (5 mm3) must
equal rodent voxel (1 mm3) = x 625• Assuming that scanner sensitivity and
radioligand specific activity are the same andattenuation is 0.3 in humans then:– [Rat] = 280 x 0.3 [human] = 84 x more drug for
equal dosing & resolution
• Arat = 0.3 A human not 0.04 A human
Nuclear Medicine and Biology 31 (2004) 771–779
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What is the problem with more massper body weight for low density sites?
• More mass will affect kinetic order , but unless the saturationof the binding site is greater than 100%, the image will becomparable & today’s computers can analyze the secondorder equation.
• More mass could affect physiology
50 nmol FP-TZTPCB
F
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Benefits --- and --- Challenges
• Decreased use ofanimals
• Statistical Advantage
• Complete kinetics
• Detailed biochemicalparameters
• Screening of DrugCandidates
• Radioactive DoseRequirements
• Mass Requirements
• Blood Volume
• Anesthesia
• Bolus vs. Infusion
• Sensitivity for TACvs. Images
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Small animal imaging with ATLAS:can we reproduce human studies
• PET scans of Target Tissue– With and without anesthesia
• Sensitivity for anatomical definition• Sensitivity for time activity curves.
• Input Function• Blood• Plasma• Metabolites
– % parent
– %ID parent
• Validation vs. Ex Vivo dissection
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Small animal imaging with ATLAS:can we reproduce human studies?
• Methods for [18F]FDG :– PET scans
• following a bolus of ~48 MBq (1.3 mCi), [18F]FDG wereper formed in rats with or without isoflurane.
– Input Function• Arter ial blood sampling was carr ied out throughout the uptake
per iod. Plasma was counted.
– Validation:• At 60 min the rat was killed, and the brain was rapidly removed
and dissected into 5 structures (thalamus, cortex , brain stem,cerebellum, and half brain).
• Activity in the tissue samples was compared to the mean activityof the last 5 min of calibrated PET data.
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55--HTHT1A1A Affinity for WAY100635Affinity for WAY100635analoguesanalogues
FC-WAY FP-WAY
OCH3
N NN
N
C
O FN N
OC H3
N
NN
C
O
F18
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Arter ial Plasma Time Courses Of[18F]FPWAY Concentration
Normalized To Activity Administered
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Time courses of tissueradioactivity measured by live and
postmor tem PET scanning.
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DR(mL plasma/mL tissue)
Brain:plasma distr ibution ratiodetermined from postmor tem PET
images of an awake (A) or isoflurane-anesthetized (B) rat
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frontal cortex cerebellum
hippocampus
lateral septum brain stem
hippocampus cerebellum
brain stem
(B)
18F autoradiographic images of sagittal sections fromone rat. Sections are (A) medial, ~1 mm from the
midline and (B) lateral, ~4 mm from the midline.
(A)
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AWAKE n=4Hippocampus
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Confirmed by Autoradiography
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CerebellumLateralhippocampus
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Results• DRs in the anesthetized animals were constant
between 30 and 60 min, indicating near equilibriumbetween brain and plasma had been achieved by ~30min.
• DRs determined from postmortem PET data werehigher in the isoflurane-anesthetized rats by 24% (notsignificant) and 33% (p=0.065) in whole brain andhippocampus, respectively.
• DRs determined from autoradiographic data weregreater in isoflurane-anesthetized rats in medialhippocampus, lateral hippocampus, and cerebellumby 33% (p=0.054), 63% (p<0.01), and 32% (p<0.05),respectively.
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Conclusion
• [18F]FPWAY could be an appropriate ligandfor monitoring changes in receptoravailability in the serotonergic system usinga bolus/infusion paradigm. One possibilityfor higher DRs in anesthetized rats may be areduction of endogenous 5-HT secretionunder isoflurane anaesthesia.
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Benefits --- and --- Challenges
• Decreased use ofanimals
• Statistical Advantage
• Complete kinetics
• Detailed biochemicalparameters
• Screening of DrugCandidates
• Radioactive DoseRequirements
• Mass Requirements
• Blood Volume
• Bolus vs. Infusion
• Sensitivity for TACvs. Images
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Patlak plot of the TAC for the cerebellum, cor tex, and wholebrain. On the abscissa is the normalized plasma activity,
θθθθ(T)=Integral Cp*(t) dt /Cp*(T), where Cp* is the ar ter ial plasmaconcentration of [18F]FDG. Tissue activity in each region, Ci* ,
divided by the plasma activity is plotted on the ordinate.
CerebellumCortexWhole Brain
[18F]FDG uptake in an anesthesized rat over 60 min.
Ci*
(T)
/Cp*
(T)
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Conclusions for Small Animal Imaging
• For those radiotracers, e.g. FDG, for which theparent is the only species in blood, the procedure canbe carr ied out as it is in clinical PET.
• For those radiotracers that clear the blood rapidlyand both parent and metabolites are in blood, e.g.[18F]FPWAY, the limited rodent blood volumemakes bolus studies more difficult than infusionstudies.
• Infusion studies are the paradigm of choice in smallanimal imaging for radiotracers that reachequilibr ium rapidly.
• At present, no instant pretty pictures, but reliablebiochemical parameters. WHAT IS IMPORTANT?
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Benefits --- and --- Challenges
• Decreased use ofanimals
• Statistical Advantage
• Complete kinetics
• Detailed biochemicalparameters
• Screening of DrugCandidates
• Radioactive DoseRequirements
• Mass Requirements
• Blood Volume
• Bolus vs. Infusion
• Sensitivity for TACvs. Images