Fig. 1. Representative Cases Demonstrating Metabolic FDG PET/CT Analysis.
Pre-leukapheresis (pre-leuk) and pre- lymphodepletion chemotherapy (pre-LD) coronal fused PET/CT (left) and maximum projection image (right) PET/CT imaging and total tumor volumetric analysis for two patients. The first patient A, B had both increasing extranodal metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and increasing total lesion glycolysis (TLG) of the largest lesion (risk score 2) from pre-leuk A to pre-LD B, and experienced PD and death after CAR-T infusion. The second patient C, D had neither risk factor (risk score 0), is alive and without progression at last follow-up, despite having higher MTV and TLG at each individual time point compared to the first patient.