Multigated blood-pool imaging using heart sounds.

Summary Cardiac Pool Scintigraphy Using the Solid-State Digirad 2020tc ImagerTM —Comparison with the Conventional Anger-Type Gamma Camera Using Moving Cardiac Phantom—

Movable gamma camera, 2020tc ImagerTM, was light miniaturized using Si photodiode as a semiconductor sensor instead of photomultiplier tubes. To validate performance of this new camera in cardiac pool scintigraphy, multigated equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography using the moving cardiac phantom was performed with 2020tc Imager and a conventional Agner-type gamma camera (PRISM 3000). [Metho...

Routinely performed multigated blood pool imaging (MUGA) as a predictor of postoperative complications of lung resection. A two-year retrospective.

The results of routinely performed multigated blood pool studies (MUGA) were compared with the presence of postthoracotomy complications in 46 adult men in a retrospective chart review. Pulmonary function measurements were also examined in relation to the presence of complications experienced. There was only one death, but survivable complications were not predicted by the MUGA results. The add...

Observer variance in the qualitative evaluation of left ventricular wall motion and the quantitation of left ventricular ejection fraction using rest and exercise multigated blood pool imaging.

Ventricular ejection fraction in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy calculated by gated blood pool SPET processing software: correlation with multigated acquisition and first pass radionuclide ventriculography.

This study was performed to find out the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) by using commercially available automated gated blood pool scintigraphy (GBPS) processing software and to correlate it with first pass radionuclide ventriculography (FPRNV) and planar multigated acquisition (MUGA). Howe...

Nano Liposomes labeled with 99mTc-HMPAO, A Novel Agent for Blood Pool Imaging

In-vitro labeling of RBC with 99mTc is an intricate procedure and there is always a need foran alternate blood pool imaging agent. The aim of this study was to prepare an effective nanosized liposome (NLs) similar to human RBC for blood pool scintigraphy. This study formulatesPEG-NLs and non-PEG-NLs using film method plus high pressure homogenization technique.Biodistribution studies were perfo...