The investigators seek to test bolus infusions (50ml/min) vs. slow infusions (20 ml/min) of Rb-82 on metrics of coronary blood flow assessed on a modern 3D PET/CT.
As perfusion metrics in the healthy volunteers, patients with risk factors and/or coronary artery disease and in tissue with transmural myocardial infarctions has been well defined AND same day test-retest variability minutes apart using a bolus infusion is ±10%, the investigators shall test 3 hypotheses. The first hypothesis is repeated same day test-retest coefficient of variation (COV) of whole heart rMBF and sMBF acquired using a bolus infusion profile (50 mls/min) on a modern 3D PET scanner falls within ± 10%. The second hypothesis is repeated same day test-retest COV of whole heart rMBF and sMBF acquired using a slow infusion activity profile (20 mls/min) on a modern 3D PET scanner falls within ± 10%. The third hypothesis is COV of whole heart rMBF and sMBF between bolus and slow activity profiles is ± 10% where the bolus is considered the standard on a modern 3D PET scanner. The investigators will test the different activity profiles on 3 distinct populations: 1. Healthy volunteers 2. Clinical volunteers with risk factors and/or CAD 3. Volunteers with clinical infarcts.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
98
Normal volunteers will receive weight based doses of Rb-82 infused as a slow infusion
Clinical patients will receive weight based doses of Rb-82 infused as a slow infusion
Infarct volunteers will receive weight based doses of Rb-82 infused as a slow infusion
Ochsner
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Resting and stress whole heart myocardial blood flow using the bolus infusion profile of Rubidium-82
resting and stress myocardial blood flow in cc/min/g
Time frame: 1 day
Resting and stress whole heart myocardial blood flow using the slow infusion profile of Rubidium-82
resting and stress myocardial blood flow in cc/min/g
Time frame: 1 Day
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