"Rubidium-82 chloride"

for estimation of MBF and MFR. Twenty-four normal volunteers and 32 patients underwent dynamic stress/rest rubidium-82 chloride (Rb) PET imaging. Fine temporal sampling was used to estimate the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the LV blood pool TAC. Fourier analysis was used to determine the longest sampling interval, T , as a function of FWHM, which preserved the information content of the blood phase

-party suppliers of radiotracers that can supply many sites simultaneously. This limitation restricts clinical PET primarily to the use of tracers labelled with fluorine-18, which has a half-life of 110 minutes and can be transported a reasonable distance before use, or to rubidium-82 (used as rubidium-82 chloride) with a half-life of 1.27 minutes, which is created in a portable generator and is used