Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can be used to evaluate whether parts of the heart muscle are alive but receiving inadequate blood supply. This study involves the use of two radiotracers that will measure whether heart muscle cell are alive and quantify the blood supply to the heart muscle.
Positron emission tomography (PET) scans can be used to evaluate whether parts of the heart muscle (myocardium) are alive but receiving inadequate blood supply. This information can be helpful in identifying the best course of treatment. This type of study involves the use of two radiotracers: rubidium-82 (to measure blood flow) and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose or FDG (to measure whether heart muscle cells are alive). Currently, each of these radiotracers is imaged at separate times, several hours apart. The purpose of this study is to evaluate methods that could allow the entire study to be performed at one time.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
Study subjects will undergo a Cardiac PET scan that will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. In addition to standard clinical rubidium-82/18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET imaging, during a separate imaging session, participants will be infused with a second dose of the radio-tracer rubidium-82 during FDG imaging scan that will take an additional 10 to 15 minutes to complete.
University of Michigan Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Equivalence of Images from Rest Rubidium-82 Perfusion PET Obtained Separately versus Simultaneously
To establish that polar map images from rest rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging performed prior to injection of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) as is routinely performed currently during clinical PET viability studies and rest rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging performed simultaneously with FDG during the second half of an extended FDG imaging session are clinically equivalent.
Time frame: 2 years
Equivalence of Quantitative Estimates of Global Myocardial Blood Flow using Rubidium-82 Perfusion PET Obtained Separately versus Simultaneously
To establish that quantitative estimates of global myocardial blood flow at rest determined from rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging performed prior to injection of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) as is routinely performed currently during clinical PET viability studies and rest rubidium-82 myocardial perfusion imaging performed simultaneously with FDG during the second half of an extended FDG imaging session are clinically equivalent.
Time frame: 2 years
Equivalence of Images from FDG PET Obtained Separately versus Simultaneously
To establish that FDG PET images obtained prior to injection of rubidium-82 and those obtained simultaneously with FDG during the second half of an extended FDG imaging session are clinically equivalent.
Time frame: 2 Years
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