Clinical Implications of the Washout Phenomenon in Technetium-99m (99mTc-) Labeled Compounds for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Yasuyo Taniguchi

doi:10.17996/anc.24-00010

Annals of Nuclear Cardiology

Online ISSN : 2424-1741
Print ISSN : 2189-3926
ISSN-L : 2189-3926

Review Articles

Clinical Implications of the Washout Phenomenon in Technetium-99m (^99mTc-) Labeled Compounds for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Yasuyo Taniguchi

Author information

Keywords: Reversed redistribution, Technetium (Tc) labeled compounds, Washout

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS FULL-TEXT HTML

2024 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 55-58

DOI https://doi.org/10.17996/anc.24-00010

Details

Abstract

The technetium (Tc) labeled myocardial perfusion compounds are tracers that have been taken up into myocytes and retained in mitochondria several times, thus reflecting the activity of myocytes at the time of injection. However, under certain conditions, “reversed redistribution” is known to occur. This review summarized the unique properties of imaging with the Tc myocardial perfusion tracers.

Content from these authors

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International] license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Favorites & Alerts

Corresponding author

Register with J-STAGE for free!