Spectral analysis of 99mTc-HMPAO for estimating cerebral blood flow: a comparison with H2(15)O PET

Annals of Nuclear Medicine
Masashi TakasawaJun Hatazawa

Abstract

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) can be quantified non-invasively using the brain perfusion index (BPI), which is determined using radionuclide angiographic data obtained through the use of technetium-99m hexamethylpropylene amine oxime (99mTc-HMPAO). The BPI is generally calculated using graphical analysis (GA). In this study, BPI was measured using spectral analysis (SA), and the usefulness of SA was compared with that of GA. Thirteen patients with various brain diseases and four healthy male volunteers were examined using radionuclide angiography with 99mTc-HMPAO. The BPI was measured for each subject using both SA and GA. In the four healthy volunteers, the BPI was examined at rest and after the intravenous administration of 1 g of acetazolamide (ACZ). An H2(15)O PET examination was also performed in the 13 patients; the BPIS and BPIG values were compared with the CBF measurements obtained using H2(15)O PET (CBFPET). The BPI values obtained by SA (BPIS) (x) and by GA (BPIG) (y) were correlated (y = 0.568x + 0.055, r = 0.901) in the 13 patients and four healthy volunteers at rest, although the BPIG values were underestimated by 36.1 +/- 7.5% (mean +/- SD) compared with the BPIS values. The degree of underestimation tended to increa...Continue Reading

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