title: [Assessment of left ventricular function with 99mTc-MIBI gated myocardial SPECT using 3 head rotating gamma camera].
abstract: Twenty-one patients with ischemic heart disease were studied by resting 99mTc-methoxyisobutyl isonitrile (MIBI) gated SPECT images using a 3 head rotating gamma camera (Picker/Shimadzu: PRISM 3000). The data were acquired over 360 degrees in 20 (x 3) steps, each of which was 70 beats. The systolic wall thickening index (%WT) was calculated as (ES count-ED count/ED count x 100), using the circumferential profile analysis of ED and ES short axial images. The %WT was correlated well with LVEF obtained from contrast ventriculography (r = 0.85, n = 17). By using high speed (3 head) rotating gamma camera, we have shortened the time of collecting MIBI gated SPECT data, and this method can provide useful information on ventricular function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kumazaki
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D015902:Gamma Cameras; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000295:instrumentation*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left
chemical_list: D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi