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Y Yonekura1, S Nishizawa, T Mukai, T Fujita, H Fukuyama, M Ishikawa, H Kikuchi, J Konishi, A R Andersen, N A Lassen.
Abstract
In order to validate the use of technetium-99m-d,l-hexamethylpropyleneamine oxime (HM-PAO) as a flow tracer, a total of 21 cases were studied with single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT), and compared to regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) measured by position emission tomography (PET) using the oxygen-15 CO2 inhalation technique. Although HM-PAO SPECT and rCBF PET images showed a similar distribution pattern the HM-PAO SPECT image showed less contrast between high and low activity flow regions than the rCBF image and a nonlinear relationship between HM-PAO activity and rCBF was shown. Based on the assumption of flow-dependent backdiffusion of HM-PAO from the brain, we applied a "linearization algorithm" to correct the HM-PAO SPECT images. The corrected HM-PAO SPECT images revealed a good linear correlation with rCBF (r = 0.901, p less than 0.001). The results indicated HM-PAO can be used as a flow tracer with SPECT after proper correction.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID： 3263981 DOI： 10.1038/jcbfm.1988.36
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Cereb Blood Flow Metab ISSN： 0271-678X Impact factor: 6.200