Ventricular volume measured from sestamibi gated tomograms
Journal Article
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· Journal of Nuclear Medicine
OSTI ID:197936
- St. Luke`s-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY (United States)
Since left ventricular (LV) end-diastolic volume (EDV) and end-systolic volume (ESV) are valuable prognostic indicators, deriving accurate LV volumes could enhance the prognostic utility of Tc-99m sestamibi myocardial perfusion SPECT. We examined two methods of obtaining volumes adjunctive to sestamibi injections. A previously reported method of computing volumes from gated first pass (FP) images by combining maximum and total counts with IV maximum depth information from an orthogonal view was tested by imaging the LV chamber of a thoracic/cardiac phantom in RAO-30{degrees} and LAO-60{degrees} projections. Computed volume agreed with known volume to within 4.9%. In a separate experiment, tomograms of the simulated myocardium of the phantom were acquired which were reoriented into vertical and horizontal long-axis slices on which an observer drew inner LV outlines, and from which volume was computed using a scatter-corrected Simpson`s rule method. Computed phantom volume agreed with known simulated LV volume to within 3.5%. To evaluate these volume methods for patient data, we analyzed LV ED and ES images of 39 patients acquired in simultaneous biplane RAO-30{degrees} and LAO-60{degrees} projections during FP bolus transit of 840 MBq Tc-99m sestamibi. One hour later, 64 projections were acquired in 64{sup 2} matrices for 20 seconds each, gated at 8 frames per R-R interval.
- OSTI ID:
- 197936
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940605--
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Journal Name: Journal of Nuclear Medicine Journal Issue: Suppl.5 Vol. 35; ISSN JNMEAQ; ISSN 0161-5505
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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