Published 1989 | Version v1
Book

Radiopharmaceuticals for cardiac imaging

Creators

  • 1. Royal Liverpool Hospital (UK). Dept. of Nuclear Medicine

Description

A brief review is given of some of the radiopharmaceuticals used in cardiac imaging and their uptake mechanisms. For myocardial scintigraphy, these include [201Tl] thallous chloride, [99Tcm] isonitriles, [99Tcm] pyrophosphate, [111In] indium antimyosin, [123I] iothalamate, [123I] metaiodobenzylguanidene, [123I] fatty acids and [111In] leukocytes. For single first-pass scintigraphy, these include [99Tcm] pertechnetate and [99Tcm] DTPA and for repeated first-pass scintigraphy 195Aum, 191IM and 178Ta. Finally for equilibrium-gated heart studies, these include [99Tcm] human serum albumin, 99Tcm-labelled red blood cells and 81Krm. (UK)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Ellis Horwood Ltd.
Imprint Place
Chichester (UK)
ISBN
0-7458-0505-1
Imprint Title
Radiopharmaceuticals using radioactive compounds in pharmaceutics and medicine
Imprint Pagination
184 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 19-27.

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
United Kingdom
INIS RN
21001802
Subject category
S38: RADIATION CHEMISTRY, RADIOCHEMISTRY AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY; S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Descriptors DEI
ALBUMINS; BLOOD SERUM; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DTPA; ERYTHROCYTES; GOLD 195; GUANIDINES; HEART; INDIUM 111; IODINE 123; IRIDIUM 191; ISONITRILES; KRYPTON 81; LEUKOCYTES; PERTECHNETATES; PYROPHOSPHATES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SCINTISCANNING; TANTALUM 178; TECHNETIUM 99; THALLIUM 201
Descriptors DEC
AMINO ACIDS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BLOOD; BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD PLASMA; BODY; BODY FLUIDS; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHELATING AGENTS; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DRUGS; ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; GOLD ISOTOPES; HEAVY NUCLEI; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; INDIUM ISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO; IODINE ISOTOPES; IRIDIUM ISOTOPES; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; KRYPTON ISOTOPES; LABELLED COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PROTEINS; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOPROTECTIVE SUBSTANCES; RESPONSE MODIFYING FACTORS; SECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPES; TANTALUM ISOTOPES; TECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; TECHNETIUM ISOTOPES; THALLIUM ISOTOPES; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES