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  • Title: [Measurement of myocardial blood flow using N-13 ammonia dynamic PET-theory and methodology].
    Author: Endo M, Yoshida K, Himi T, Kagaya A, Fukuda H, Iinuma T, Yamasaki T, Tateno Y, Masuda Y, Inagaki Y.
    Journal: Kaku Igaku; 1990 Oct; 27(10):1135-40. PubMed ID: 2277454.
    Abstract:
    Positron emission tomography (PET) offers the potential capability of noninvasive measurement of regional myocardial blood flow (RMBF) in man. Because N-13 ammonia exhibits properties which to some extent resemble those of the radioactive microsphere, we developed a first-pass flow method for noninvasive measurement of RMBF. In the present method, RMBF was determined by dividing myocardial activity at time T by arterial input integrated from the injection start to that time, where time T is the endpoint of first circulation of N-13 ammonia. Also in the present method a time-activity curve of left atrium was used as the arterial input function to make the procedure totally noninvasive. To validate the present method, we compared it with the compartment analysis. 5 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and with a considerably thickened ventricular wall, were selected for the comparison between the first-pass flow method and the compartment analysis. The relationship of RMBFs by the two methods was y = 1.8 + 1.097x-0.002037x2 (n = 30, SEE = 5.5), where x (ml/min/100 g) was obtained by the compartment analysis, while y (ml/min/100 g) by the first-pass flow method. The result indicated that both were almost identical in physiological flow range (less than 100 ml/min/100 g), but that the first-pass flow method underestimated RMBF in the higher flow range due to venous leakage of N-13 ammonia. As the conclusion, we could at least measure RMBF of HCM patient in the physiological flow range by the present method. The future extension of the method was discussed.
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