Purpose. Myocardial blood flow (MBF) quantification with 82Rb positron emission tomography (PET) is gaining clinical adoption, but improvements in precision are desired. This study aims to identify analysis variants producing the most repeatable MBF measures. Methods. 12 volunteers underwent same-day test-retest rest and dipyridamole stress imaging with dynamic 82Rb PET, from which MBF was quan...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to compare myocardial blood flow (MBF) in hyperlipidemic postmenopausal women and age-matched hyperlipidemic men, and to analyze the relationship between cholesterol subfractions and myocardial blood flow in men and women. BACKGROUND Women are protected from coronary artery disease (CAD) events until well after menopause, in part due to gender-specific ...

UNLABELLED (82)Rb 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 flow (MBF) and coronary flow reserve (CFR) with dynamic (82)Rb PET is feasible. The objectives of this study were to determine the accuracy and reproducibility of MBF estimates from dynamic (82)Rb PET by...

INTRODUCTION Measurement of myocardial blood flow (MBF) with DCE-MRI is conventionally performed on a region-of-interest (ROI) basis: time curves are averaged over a ROI, and tracer kinetic analysis is applied to the ROI curve to derive the MBF [1, 2]. In principle, a voxelwise analysis is more attractive since it produces higher resolution images of MBF and may thus increase the diagnostic pow...

Background First pass myocardial perfusion CMR allows quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF). MBF estimation with whole-heart tissue response may be useful in a variety of systemic diseases, but can be limited by suboptimal imaging in one or more segments. The interventricular septum (IVS) offers an attractive target for MBF imaging, as it offers higher signal and less partial volume art...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to characterize the influence of time-of-flight (TOF) and point spread function (PSF) recovery corrections, as well as ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) reconstruction parameters, in 82Rb PET/CT quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and myocardial flow reserve (MFR). Rest and stress list-mode dynamic 82Rb PET acquisition data from 10 patients without ...

BACKGROUND Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMLR) has been proposed for treatment of refractory angina. It has been hypothesized that transmural left ventricular channels created by laser improve myocardial blood flow (MBF) in the treated zones. We aimed to assess the effect of TMLR on MBF and coronary vasodilator reserve (CVR). METHODS AND RESULTS We measured MBF by means of PET with...

AIMS Sympathetic denervation typically occurs in the infarcted myocardium and is associated with sudden cardiac death. Impaired innervation was also demonstrated in non-infarcted myocardium in ischaemic and dilated cardiomyopathy (ICMP and DCMP). Factors affecting sympathetic nerve integrity in remote myocardium are unknown. Perfusion abnormalities, even in the absence of epicardial coronary ar...

BACKGROUND The quantification of myocardial blood flow (MBF) and coronary flow reserve (CFR) are useful approaches for evaluating the functional severity of coronary artery disease (CAD). 15O-water positron emission tomography (PET) is considered the gold standard method for MBF quantification. However, MBF measurements in 15O-water PET with three-dimensional (3D) data acquisition, attenuation ...