2020
Preclinical Validation of a Single-Scan Rest/Stress Imaging Technique for 13N-Ammonia Positron Emission Tomography Cardiac Perfusion Studies
Guehl N, Pelletier-Galarneau M, Wooten D, Guerrero J, Kas A, Normandin M, Fakhri G, Alpert N. Preclinical Validation of a Single-Scan Rest/Stress Imaging Technique for 13N-Ammonia Positron Emission Tomography Cardiac Perfusion Studies. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging 2020, 13: e009407. PMID: 31959009, PMCID: PMC7205554, DOI: 10.1161/circimaging.119.009407.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMyocardial blood flowPerfusion imagingMyocardial perfusion imaging proceduresSCAN-ALeft anterior descending arteryDose of adenosineAbsolute myocardial blood flowStress perfusion imagingAnterior descending arteryCardiac perfusion studiesMyocardial blood flow measurementsBland-Altman analysisNonstationary kinetic modelPositron emission tomographyMeasurement of restMyocardial blood flow valuesPharmacological stressorDescending arteryPreclinical validationMyocardial blood flow estimatesSingle-scan acquisitionPerfusion studiesVariable dosesImaging sessionMicrosphere MBF measurements
2017
Rapid computation of single PET scan rest‐stress myocardial blood flow parametric images by table look up
Guehl N, Normandin M, Wooten D, Rozen G, Ruskin J, Shoup T, Woo J, Ptaszek L, Fakhri G, Alpert N. Rapid computation of single PET scan rest‐stress myocardial blood flow parametric images by table look up. Medical Physics 2017, 44: 4643-4651. PMID: 28594441, PMCID: PMC5603217, DOI: 10.1002/mp.12398.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsCoronary CirculationCoronary VesselsHeart VentriclesHumansMalePositron-Emission TomographyRestSwine