Quantitative Assessment of Early Post Injection Stress-First Tetrofosmin Acquisition: Implications for Laboratory Efficiency and Potentially Reducing Patient and Staff Risk During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Conclusions: Early post-stress imaging appears feasible with Tc-99m tetrofosmin and CZT instrumentation, with no difference in heart/blood pool ratios between early and late acquisitions, and early heart/liver ratios well above 1. This protocol permits rapid acquisitions, reduces patient/staff interaction times, and almost halves the time a patient needs to be in the lab. A blinded read of early and late acquisitions to determine image quality and diagnostic certainty appears warranted.
Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Tags: Clinical Science Source Type: research