Myocardial scintigraphy with 99mTc-tris-DMPE in man.
Cardiac scintigraphy was performed in six patients with a documented previous myocardial infarction, in one patient with mitral regurgitation, and in four healthy volunteers following administration of 99mTc-tris-DMPE. An intense early blood pool phase permitted gated blood pool scintigraphy and left ventricular ejection fraction calculation. A myocardial phase 12-14 h later permitted myocardial perfusion imaging. The rest myocardial perfusion image quality with 99mTc-tris-DMPE appeared to be superior to the resting image quality obtained with 99mTc-dichloro-DMPE but was inferior to the resting image quality obtained with 201Tl.
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010720:Phosphines; D011868:Radioisotopes; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013318:Stroke Volume; D013667:Technetium; D013793:Thallium
D015609:Organotechnetium Compounds; D010720:Phosphines; D011868:Radioisotopes; C043834:technetium Tc 99m tris(1,2-bis(dimethylphosphino)ethane); D013667:Technetium; D013793:Thallium