@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00048541,
 author = {Hiroshima, Yuji and Manabe, Osamu and Naya, Masanao and Tomiyama, Yuuki and Magota, Keiichi and Obara, Masahiko and Aikawa, Tadao and Noriko, Oyama-Manabe and Yoshinaga, Keiichiro and Hirata, Kenji and Kroenke, Markus and Tamaki, Nagara and Katoh, Chietsugu and Yoshinaga, Keiichiro},
 journal = {Journal of Nuclear Cardiology},
 month = {Nov},
 note = {BACKGROUND:
11C-hydroxyephedrine (HED) PET has been used to evaluate the myocardial sympathetic nervous system (SNS). Here we sought to establish a simultaneous approach for quantifying both myocardial blood flow (MBF) and the SNS from a single HED PET scan.
METHODS:
Ten controls and 13 patients with suspected cardiac disease were enrolled. The inflow rate of 11C-HED (K1) was obtained using a one-tissue-compartment model. We compared this rate with the MBF derived from 15O-H2O PET. In the controls, the relationship between K 1 from 11C-HED PET and the MBF from 15O-H2O PET was linked by the Renkin-Crone model.
RESULTS:
The relationship between K 1 from 11C-HED PET and the MBF from 15O-H2O PET from the controls' data was approximated as follows: K 1  =  (1 - 0.891 * exp(- 0.146/MBF)) * MBF. In the validation set, the correlation coefficient demonstrated a significantly high relationship for both the whole left ventricle (r = 0.95, P < 0.001) and three coronary territories (left anterior descending artery: r = 0.96, left circumflex artery: r = 0.81, right coronary artery: r =  0.86; P < 0.001, respectively).
CONCLUSION:
11C-HED can simultaneously estimate MBF and sympathetic nervous function without requiring an additional MBF scan for assessing mismatch areas between MBF and SNS.},
 title = {Quantification of myocardial blood flow with 11C-hydroxyephedrine dynamic PET: comparison with 15O-H2O PET.},
 year = {2017}
}