First published online
December 17, 2008, 10.2967/jnumed.108.055673
Repeatability of Rest and Hyperemic Myocardial Blood Flow Measurements with 82Rb Dynamic PET
Osamu Manabe1,
Keiichiro Yoshinaga2,
Chietsugu Katoh3,
Masanao Naya4,
Robert A. deKemp5 and
Nagara Tamaki1
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan; 2 Department of Molecular Imaging, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan; 3 Department of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan; 4 Department of Cardiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan; and 5 Cardiac PET Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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FIGURE 2. MBF and CFR comparing first and second studies: repeated rest MBF (A), repeated hyperemic MBF (B), repeated CFR (C), and repeated RPP–corrected CFR (D).
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FIGURE 3. Repeatability of MBF Bland–Altman plots: rest MBF (A), RPP-corrected rest MBF (B), hyperemic MBF (C), CFR (D), and RPP-corrected CFR (E).
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FIGURE 4. Scatter plots comparing first and second MBF studies: rest MBF (A), RPP-corrected rest MBF (B), hyperemic MBF (C), CFR (D), and RPP-corrected CFR (E).
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