Quantification of the extent and severity of perfusion defects in canine myocardium by PET polar mapping.

KT Sun, M De Groof, J Yi, HW Hansen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1994 - europepmc.org
Methods In seven open-chest dogs, either the left anterior descending (n= 11) or left
circumflex coronary artery (n= 13) were ligated sequentially from distal to proximal. After …

Reproducibility of polar map generation and assessment of defect severity and extent assessment in myocardial perfusion imaging using positron emission …

SG Nekolla, C Miethaner, N Nguyen, SI Ziegler… - European journal of …, 1998 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of new software developed for the
analysis of cardiac tomographic data. The algorithm delineates the long axis and defines the …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative myocardial mapping of perfusion and metabolism using parametric polar map displays in cardiac PET

PK Blanksma, ATM Willemsen, JG Meeder… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1995 - Soc Nuclear Med
Methods: This was performed by usingthe data of each of 48 radial segments of 10 short-
axis images as tissue data and LV cavity data of three basal planes as blood pool data. The …

High-resolution cardiac PET in rabbits: imaging and quantitation of myocardial blood flow

K Shimada, K Yoshida, H Tadokoro… - The Journal of …, 1998 - search.proquest.com
advantage over rest-redistribution 201T1 imaging, which re Page 1 advantage over rest-redistribution
201T1 imaging, which requires 4—24 hr for delayed imaging. CONCLUSION Image quality as …

Semiquantitative assessment of myocardial blood flow and viability using polar map displays of cardiac PET images.

G Porenta, W Kuhle, J Czernin, O Ratib… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1992 - europepmc.org
Preserved glucose metabolism in ischemically injured, dysfunctional myocardial tissue as
demonstrated on PET imaging predicts functional improvement after revascularization. To …

[PDF][PDF] A mathematical model for the heterogeneity of myocardial perfusion using nitrogen-13-ammonia

KR Visser, JG Meeder, JHGM van Beek… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1998 - Soc Nuclear Med
Results: The heterogeneityof patients is higherfor the whole range of spatial resolutions
considered (2< n< 480; for n= 480, v= 0.22 Ā±0.03 and 0.18 Ā±0.02; p< 0.005). This is …

Cardiac PET imaging of blood flow, metabolism, and function in normal and infarcted rats

R Lecomte, E Croteau, ME Gauthier… - … on Nuclear Science, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rat heart is an excellent model for the investigation of cardiac physiology and
metabolism. It has been used extensively for ex vivo studies of the normal heart as well as …

Differences in polar-map patterns using the novel technologies for myocardial perfusion imaging

O Zoccarato, C Marcassa, D Lizio, L Leva… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background New technologies are available in MPI. Our aim was to evaluate their impact on
the uniformity of normal myocardial uptake in the polar-map representation, over different …

[PDF][PDF] Estimation of left ventricular mass and infarct size from nitrogen-13-ammonia PET images based on pathological examination of explanted human hearts

D Delbeke, CH Lorenz, JR Votaw… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1993 - Soc Nuclear Med
Departments ofRadiology, Cardiothoracic Surgei'y and Pathology, Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee slices from the apex to the base. To exclude a recent …

Quantification of regional myocardial blood flow using 13N-ammonia and reoriented dynamic positron emission tomographic imaging.

WG Kuhle, G Porenta, SC Huang, D Buxton… - Circulation, 1992 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND Regional myocardial blood flow has been quantified using transaxial
positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging and tracer kinetic modeling. However, the use …