Relation between regional distribution of thallium-201 and myocardial blood flow in normal, acutely ischemic, and infarcted myocardium.
Myocardial localization of thallium-201 was compared with direct measurements of myocardial perfusion in normal, acutely ischemic, and recently infarcted myocardium. Studies were performed in 6 chronically instrumented dogs that were subjected to myocardial infarction by occlusion of the proximal left circumflex coronary artery. Four days after myocardial infarction, thallium-201 and 9 +/- 1 micrometer niobium-95-labelled microspheres were injected simultaneously after acute left anterior descending coronary arterial occlusion; the animals were killed 5 minutes later and the entire left ventricle was sectioned into 1 to 2 g samples. Regression analyses between thallium-201 activity and regional myocardial blood flow using all myocardial samples demonstrated a very close linear relation in each dog; r values were 0.98 or greater, indicating that the initial localization of thallium-201 in acutely ischemic and recently infarcted myocardium as a function of regional blood flow was essentially identical. Consequently, in each dog the regional distribution of thallium-201 closely approximated myocardial perfusion over a wide range of blood flow and potentially different local metabolic conditions that may be encountered in the clinical use of the isotope.
D000818:Animals; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004285:Dogs; D008863:Microspheres; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009556:Niobium; D011868:Radioisotopes; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013793:Thallium
D011868:Radioisotopes; D009556:Niobium; D013793:Thallium