RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Absolute Left Ventricular Volume Using the Build Up Factor
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 111
OP 114
VO 12
IS 3
A1 Jeffry A. Siegel
A1 Kenneth M. Blasius
A1 Alan H. Maurer
YR 1984
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/12/3/111.abstract
AB A new method for determining absolute left ventricular (LV) volumes from radionuclide gated blood pool images has been validated at our institution (1). Only four parameters are needed to determine LV volumes: the LV count rates from an LAO and an RPO image (180° opposed to the LAO), a venous blood sample, and a patient thickness measurement. The procedure can easily be performed as a part of routine gated blood pool imaging. The technique is non-geometric, corrects for tissue attenuation, and uses an experimentally determined build up factor to account for the effects of scatter.