The availability of plastic microspheres labeled with different-emitting isotopes has allowed
the quantification of blood flow in different organs, including the heart (1). In the past 3 …

PET provides robust and reproducible measurements of regional myocardial blood flow in
milliliters per minute per gram of tissue, providing unique pathophysiologic and diagnostic …

Purpose Absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow expands the diagnostic potential of
PET for assessment of coronary artery disease. 82 Rb has significantly contributed to …

The purpose of this study was to assess a 3-dimensional (3D)-only PET scanner (ECAT
EXACT3D) for its use in the absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) using …

PET with 13N-ammonia permits the noninvasive quantification of myocardial blood flow
(MBF) in humans. The present study was done to assess the reproducibility of quantitative …

Radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is among the most commonly performed
diagnostic tests in cardiology. Although the diagnostic and prognostic applications of …

Quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and flow reserve has been used extensively
with positron emission tomography (PET) to investigate the functional significance of …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare myocardial blood flow (MBF) and
myocardial flow reserve (MFR) estimates from rubidium-82 positron emission tomography …

Absolute quantitation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) by PET is an established method of
analyzing coronary artery disease (CAD) but subject to the various shortcomings of …

Because the use of factor analysis has been proposed for extracting pure physiologic
temporal or spatial information from dynamic nuclear medicine images, factor analysis …