Residual activity correction for computing myocardial blood flow from dynamic 13NH3 studies

XB Pan, E Alexanderson, L Le Meunier, J Declerck - 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
2103 Objectives A cardiac perfusion PET study requires at least 2 scans (rest and stress).
With 13 NH 3 (half life of 9.97 min), some residual activity from the previous study could still …

Comparison of clinical tools for measurements of regional stress and rest myocardial blood flow assessed with 13N-ammonia PET/CT

PJ Slomka, E Alexanderson, R Jácome… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
Several models for the quantitative analysis of myocardial blood flow (MBF) at stress and
rest and myocardial flow reserve (MFR) with 13N-ammonia myocardial perfusion PET have …

Effects of temporal sampling on PET myocardial blood flow estimates

B Lee, J Moody, V Murthy, J Corbett, E Ficaro - 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
1775 Objectives Undersampling of the left ventricle (LV) blood pool time activity curve (TAC)
can produce inaccurate estimates of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and coronary flow reserve …

Assessment of myocardial perfusion by dynamic N-13 ammonia PET imaging: comparison of 2 tracer kinetic models

A Khorsand, S Graf, C Pirich, O Muzik, K Kletter… - Journal of nuclear …, 2005 - Springer
Background Measurement of myocardial blood flow (MBF) by dynamic nitrogen 13 ammonia
(NH3) positron emission tomography (PET) uses tracer kinetic modeling to analyze time …

A study of consistency of myocardial blood flow calculation using motion correction in dynamic PET

S Bond, XB Pan, J Declerck - 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
1326 Objectives Calculation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) in dynamic PET data can be
affected by patient motion over the period of the acquisition. Small drift or sudden motion can …

Variation in maximum counting rates during myocardial blood flow quantification using 82Rb PET

JD van Dijk, PL Jager, JAC van Osch… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
Systems for Accurate Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow”(1). The authors describe a
method to obtain the maximum injected activity for which accurate quantification of …

Improved homogeneity of normal MBF using factor analysis with 82Rb PET

R Klein, K Yoshinaga, C Katoh, A Adler, R Beanlands… - 2010 - Soc Nuclear Med
1327 Objectives Quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) with 15O-water PET has
been extensively validated, but is limited to sites with an onsite cyclotron. Generator …

Reproducibility and accuracy of quantitative myocardial blood flow assessment with 82Rb PET: comparison with 13N-ammonia PET

G El Fakhri, A Kardan, A Sitek, S Dorbala… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
82Rb cardiac PET allows the assessment of myocardial perfusion with a column generator
in clinics that lack a cyclotron. There is evidence that the quantitation of myocardial blood …

Multisoftware reproducibility study of stress and rest myocardial blood flow assessed with 3D dynamic PET/CT and a 1-tissue-compartment model of 82Rb kinetics

RA Dekemp, J Declerck, R Klein, XB Pan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2013 - Soc Nuclear Med
Routine quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) requires robust and reproducible
processing of dynamic image series. The goal of this study was to evaluate the …

Absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow with 13N-ammonia and 3-dimensional PET

T Schepis, O Gaemperli, V Treyer… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of this study was to compare 2-dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) dynamic
PET for the absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) with 13N-ammonia (13N …