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Myocardial ECT methods, PET and SPECT provide information on the three-dimensional distribution of radionuclides within the myocardium. Potassium analogues or fatty acids may be used with either method. With PET, however, physiological tracers such as oxygen, ammonium, carboxides and labelled glucose may be exclusively employed. Moreover, with PET, adequate correction for photo-attenuation and depth-independent resolution yield quantitative information on tracer concentration in vivo. Thus, PET enables clinicians to look beyond blood flow and cardiac function to probe the biochemistry of the heart. The radionuclides employed are shown in Table 1. There are three types of radiopharmaceuticals; one labels the blood pool, the second labels the blood flow, and the third is employed to measure myocardial metabolism.
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Büll, U. (1986). Positron emission tomography of the heart. In: Effert, S., von Essen, R., Hugenholtz, P.G., Uebis, R., Verstraete, M. (eds) Facts and Hopes in Thrombolysis in Acute Myocardial Infarction. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07174-8_16
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