The influence of number of counts in the myocardium in the determination of reproducible functional parameters in gated-SPECT studies simulated with GATE.

نویسندگان

  • L Vieira
  • D C Costa
  • P Almeida
چکیده

UNLABELLED Myocardial perfusion gated-single photon emission computed tomography (gated-SPECT) imaging is used for the combined evaluation of myocardial perfusion and left ventricular (LV) function. The aim of this study is to analyze the influence of counts/pixel and concomitantly the total counts in the myocardium for the calculation of myocardial functional parameters. MATERIAL AND METHODS Gated-SPECT studies were performed using a Monte Carlo GATE simulation package and the NCAT phantom. The simulations of these studies use the radiopharmaceutical (99m)Tc-labeled tracers (250, 350, 450 and 680 MBq) for standard patient types, effectively corresponding to the following activities of myocardium: 3, 4.2, 5.4-8.2 MBq. All studies were simulated using 15 and 30s/projection. The simulated data were reconstructed and processed by quantitative-gated-SPECT software, and the analysis of functional parameters in gated-SPECT images was done by using Bland-Altman test and Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test. RESULTS In studies simulated using different times (15 and 30s/projection), it was noted that for the activities for full body: 250 and 350 MBq, there were statistically significant differences in parameters Motility and Thickness. For the left ventricular ejection fractio n (LVEF), end-systolic volume (ESV) it was only for 250 MBq, and 350 MBq in the end-diastolic volume (EDV), while the simulated studies with 450 and 680MBq showed no statistically significant differences for global functional parameters: LVEF, EDV and ESV. CONCLUSION The number of counts/pixel and, concomitantly, the total counts per simulation do not significantly interfere with the determination of gated-SPECT functional parameters, when using the administered average activity of 450 MBq, corresponding to the 5.4 MBq of the myocardium, for standard patient types.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Revista espanola de medicina nuclear e imagen molecular

دوره 34 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015