Cardiac nuclear medicine, part I: the methods
With the rapid improvement in instrumentation and radiopharmaceuticals, cardiovascular nuclear medicine has undergone dramatic growth. Radiotracer techniques for the estimation of myocardial blood flow, metabolism and cardiac hemodynamics have been accepted into routine clinical practice. These techniques are also providing sensitive tools to help us elucidate cardiac physiology and pathophysiology. Three commonly used examinations are: technetium-99m pyrophosphate imaging for the detection of irreversibly damaged myocardium; thallium-201 imaging for the evaluation of myocardial perfusion and integrity; and cardiac wall motion studies with technetium-99m labeled red blood cells for the assessment of ventricular contraction. This is the first part of a three-part series on cardiac nuclear medicine. Part II will focus on diagnosis of coronary artery disease, and part III will focus on myocardial infarction and other cardiac diseases.
- OSTI ID:
- 5587181
- Journal Information:
- Med. Instrum. (Arlington, Va.); (United States), Vol. 15:3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
DIAGNOSIS
HEART
SCINTISCANNING
TECHNETIUM 99
DIAGNOSTIC USES
THALLIUM 201
BLOOD FLOW
ERYTHROCYTES
ISOMERIC NUCLEI
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
PATHOLOGY
PHYSIOLOGY
RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
BLOOD
BLOOD CELLS
BODY
BODY FLUIDS
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
DRUGS
ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
HEAVY NUCLEI
HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
MATERIALS
MEDICINE
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RADIOISOTOPES
SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES
THALLIUM ISOTOPES
USES
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
550601* - Medicine- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics
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