RESULTS In all patients studied, a well-defined image of the cardiac blood pool, spleen,
and liver was seen on the imaging oscilloscope within 4 hr of injection of labeled platelets …

The pulmonary ventilation scintigram (Xe-I 33) wasnormal. After right antecubital
intravenous administration of Tc-99mlabeled microspheres, serial scintiphotos of the thorax …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients. Our six patients with pericardial effusion were all
individuals with malignant disease. One patient had chronic myelogenous leukemia while …

CARDIAC blood pool scanning was introduced by Rejali and his associates in 1958 (1).
They described heart blood pool visualization by the isotope scanning method, following …

METHODS Twenty-one patients being evaluated for brain pathology with no previous
cardiac history served as controls. Fifteen patients had clinical evidence of pericardial …

A 55-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with the tentative diagnosis of pulmonary
embolism. He had had no chest pains or shortness of breath but was found on physical …

In a case in which selective angiocardiography was recently performed in order to visualize
valvular pulmonary stenosis, the catheter tip was repelled at the beginning of the injection of …

Evaluation of the peripheral circulation in man is usually based upon observations of skin
color and texture, temperature and sweating activity; or if one wishes more quantitative data …

The radioisotope blood pool scan has been applied to two principal kinds of problems: the
differential diagnosis of midline masses (1) and, more commonly, the detection of pericardial …

DISCUSSION Cerebral circulation studies are often a useful addi tion to the routine static
views. Usually the tracer is not seen in the arterial phase of the cerebral cir culation until …