Authors: Christina Byrne Lotte Hahn Enevoldsen Andreas Kjær Philip Hasbak
Publish Date: 2015/11/10
Volume: 23, Issue: 5, Pages: 1173-1175
Abstract
At our institution we use 82Rubidium 82Rb cardiac PET/CT imaging routinely with a setup as previously described in detail by Armstrong et al3 In brief patients undergo a rest scan followed by an adenosine stress scan a 7minute list mode PET acquisition is started at the same time as the 82Rb tracer infusion For static and gated images we use a reconstruction delay of 25 minute to allow the 82Rb tracer to clear from the blood pool and to get an optimal myocardium to left ventricle LV cavity contrastThe most commonly used and preferred intravenous administration route for 82Rb tracer administration is the antecubital vein preferably the basilic vein draining straight into the axillary and brachiocephalic veins A cardiac 82Rb PET/CT scan is affected by slow intrinsic peripheral
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