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  • Title: Comparison of single-photon emission computed tomography with [123I]iodoamphetamine and xenon-enhanced computed tomography for assessing regional cerebral blood flow.
    Author: Hellman RS, Collier BD, Tikofsky RS, Kilgore DP, Daniels DL, Haughton VM, Walsh PR, Cusick JF, Saxena VK, Palmer DW.
    Journal: J Cereb Blood Flow Metab; 1986 Dec; 6(6):747-55. PubMed ID: 3025234.
    Abstract:
    Regional CBF (rCBF) images obtained from xenon-enhanced computed tomography (XeCT) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with N-isopropyl-p-[123I]iodoamphetamine (IMP) done with a rotating gamma-camera were compared in nine patients. Both XeCT and SPECT/IMP demonstrated flow abnormalities at all sites of infarction identified by CT, while detecting reduced rCBF in areas normal by CT in eight of the nine patients. All areas that were abnormal on XeCT were abnormal on the comparable SPECT/IMP images. The major advantages of XeCT are its greater resolution and potential for noninvasive quantitation of rCBF, while the major advantage of SPECT/IMP is its visualization of the entire brain on transverse, coronal, and sagittal sections.
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