A Clinical Application of Ensemble ICA to the Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow in Dynamic $$ H^{{15}}_{2} O $$ PET

Automatic generation of absolute myocard

Automatic generation of absolute myocardial blood flow images using [15O]H2O and a clinical PET/CT scanner

✍ Hendrik J. Harms; Paul Knaapen; Stefan de Haan; Rick Halbmeijer; Adriaan A. Lamm 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 345 KB

## Purpose Parametric imaging of absolute myocardial blood flow (MBF) using [^15^O]H~2~O enables determination of MBF with high spatial resolution. The aim of this study was to develop a method for generating reproducible, high-quality and quantitative parametric MBF images with minimal user interv