Quantification of regional cerebral blood flow with IMP-SPECT. Reproducibility and clinical relevance of flow values

Journal Article · Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1989 · Stroke; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1161/01.STR.20.2.183· OSTI ID:6326455

Podreka, I; Baumgartner, C; Suess, E; Mueller, C B; Bruecke, T L; Lang, W; Holzner, F; Steiner, M; Deecke, L

Single-photon emission computed tomography with N-isopropyl(123I)-p-iodoamphetamine (IMP-SPECT) was performed in 14 normal volunteers (seven men and seven women aged 25.1 +/- 5.3 years) and 29 patients with cerebrovascular disease (18 men and 11 women aged 54.1 +/- 13.7 years). The fluid microsphere model was used to estimate cerebral blood flow (CBF). Normal subjects were scanned twice, 1 week apart, to determine the reproducibility of the CBF estimates. Hemispheric blood flow (hCBF) was calculated as the mean of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) values in 16 gray matter regions per hemisphere. In normal subjects mean hCBF was 68 ml/100 g/min. The highest rCBF was found in the occipital cortex, followed by the frontal, temporal, and parietal cortexes. CBF values were reproducible (p less than 0.001 except the right thalamic region, where p less than 0.01). Intraindividual variation ranged between 0.3% and 15%. Women exhibited significantly higher (16%, p less than 0.02) CBF than men. Patients were subdivided into groups with reversible (n = 19) and persistent (n = 10) symptoms. Significant hCBF differences between the affected and the contralateral hemispheres were recorded only in the group with reversible symptoms (p less than 0.005), whereas the group with persistent symptoms showed a significant bilateral decrease of hCBF compared with normal subjects and patients with reversible symptoms. Focal CBF was significantly lower in patients with completed stroke than in patients with transient symptoms (p less than 0.001). Our results indicate that IMP-SPECT can be used for the routine estimation of CBF in normal and pathologic states.

• Research Organization: Universitaetsklinik Wien (Austria)
• OSTI ID: 6326455
• Journal Information: Stroke; (United States), Vol. 20:2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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