Approach to Assessing Myocardial Perfusion in Rats Using Static [13N]-Ammonia Images and a Small-Animal PET

Juan-José Vaquero,Dong-Wei Gao,Carmen García-Villaba,Stephen L. Bacharach,Henry F. VanBrocklin,Qizhi Fang,Manuel Desco,Randall J. Lee,Michael W. Dae

Approach to Assessing Myocardial Perfusion in Rats Using Static [13N]-Ammonia Images and a Small-Animal PET

2012

Juan-José Vaquero
Dong-Wei Gao
Carmen García-Villaba
Stephen L. Bacharach
Henry F. VanBrocklin
Qizhi Fang
Manuel Desco
Randall J. Lee
Michael W. Dae

Purpose Semi-quantitative, static positron emission tomography (PET) has been used to perform an initial approach to the assessment of [13N]-ammonia perfusion studies aimed to elucidating the effect of injecting human embryonic stem cell-derived (hES) hemangioblasts on infarcted rat hearts.

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Nuclear medicine
Radiology
Medicine
(13N)Ammonia
Positron emission tomography
Hemangioblast
Perfusion
small animal

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