Absolute Quantitation of Myocardial Blood Flow in Human Subjects With or Without Myocardial Ischemia Using Dynamic Flurpiridaz F 18 PET

• Published in: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 55; no. 9; pp. 1438 - 1444
• Main Authors: Packard, René R.S., Huang, Sung-Cheng, Dahlbom, Magnus, Czernin, Johannes, Maddahi, Jamshid
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society of Nuclear Medicine 01.09.2014
• Subjects: Aged; Cardiovascular disease; Coronary Circulation; Female; Fluorine Radioisotopes; Heart attacks; Humans; Ischemia; Male; Myocardial Ischemia - physiopathology; Nuclear medicine; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Pyridazines; Radiometry; Stress response; Tomography; MBF; MFR; flurpiridaz; human; PET

Absolute quantitation of myocardial blood flow (MBF) by PET is an established method of analyzing coronary artery disease (CAD) but subject to the various shortcomings of available radiotracers. Flurpiridaz F 18 is a novel PET radiotracer that exhibits properties of an ideal tracer. A new absolute p...