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  • Title: Influence of attenuation on radionuclide stroke volume determinations.
    Author: Burow RD, Wilson MF, Heath PW, Corn CR, Amil A, Thadani U.
    Journal: J Nucl Med; 1982 Sep; 23(9):781-5. PubMed ID: 7108624.
    Abstract:
    Using a method for determination of absolute volumes, including correcting for attenuation, we have explored the ability of the method to determine stroke volume in humans by radionuclide techniques. Thermodilution cardiac output determinations and multigated equilibrium blood-pool scintigraphy in the LAO view were performed simultaneously in twenty patients in which no evidence of intracardiac shunts or valvular disease was present. The correlation was good between the attenuated radionuclide and thermodilution stroke volume (r = 0.80, s.e.e. of estimate = 12 ml; SVtd = 2.31 x SVr + 18 ml). When correction for attenuation was made, the correlation improved (r = 0.96, s.e.e. = 6 ml) and approached the line of identity (SVtd = 0.99 x SVr + 1.2 ml). The correlation was also good between radionuclide cardiac output, corrected for attenuation, and the thermodilution cardiac output (r = 0.89, s.e.e. = 0.36 l/min; COtd = 0.86 x COr + 0.67 l/min). Thus our method of correction for attenuation in the determination of absolute left-ventricular volumes has been shown to provide a reliable, noninvasive means of calculating stroke volume and cardiac output in humans, without the use of geometric assumptions or regression equations.
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