CLINICAL COMPARISON OF CARDIAC BLOOD POOL VISUALIZATION WITH TECHNETIUM-99M RED BLOOD-CELLS LABELED INVIVO AND WITH TECHNETIUM-99M HUMAN-SERUM ALBUMIN
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 19 (7) , 796-803
Abstract
99mTc red blood cells (Tc-RBC) labeled by an in vivo technique were compared with 2 preparations of 99mTc human serum albumin (HSA) for cardiac blood-pool imaging. Relative distribution of the tracers was analyzed on end-diastolic frames of gated blood-pool studies and on whole-body (head to mid-thigh) anterior pinhole images. The Tc-RBC demonstrated greater relative percentage localization in the cardiac blood pool, higher target-to-background ratios in the left ventricle and less liver concentration. For cardiac blood-pool imaging, Tc-RBC labeled by the in vivo approach appears to be superior to the 2 Tc-HSA preparations studied.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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