Automatic determination of brain perfusion index for measurement of cerebral blood flow using spectral analysis and 99mTc-HMPAO

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1443-1446

  Takasawa, Masashi ^a,b   Murase, Kenya ^a,b   Oku, Naohiko ^a,b   Kawamata, Minoru ^a,b   Imaizumi, Masao ^a,b   Yoshikawa, Takuya ^a,b   Osaki, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Paul, Asit K ^a,b   Kitagawa, Kazuo ^a,b   Matsumoto, Masayasu ^a,b   Hori, Masatsugu ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain perfusion index; Spectral analysis; SPET; Technetium 99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; WATER O 15; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIONUCLIDE ANGIOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M EXAMETAZIME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 1842858308     PISSN: 03406997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-002-0931-1     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Cunningham VJ, Jones T. Spectral analysis of dynamic PET studies. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1993; 13:15-23.
2. Murase K, Inoue T, Fujioka H, Ishimaru Y, Akamune K, Yoshimoto Y, Mochizuki T, Ikezoe K. An alternative approach to estimation of the brain perfusion index for measurement of cerebral blood flow using technetium-99m compounds.Eur J Nucl Med 1999; 26:1333-1339.
3. Matsuda H, Tsuji S, Shuke N, Sumiya H, Tonami N, Hisada K. A quantitative approach to technetium-99m hexamethylpropy-lene amine oxime.Eur J Nucl Med 1992; 19:195-200.
4. 15O-water. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 1983; 3:141-153.
5. Llacer J, Veklerov E, Baxter LR, Grafton ST, Griffeth LK, Hawkins RA, Hoh CK, Mazziotta JC, Hoffman EJ, Metz CE. Results of a clinical receiver operating characteristic study comparing filtered backprojection and maximum likelihood estimator images in FDG PET studies. J Nucl Med 1993; 34:1198-1203.