Research Article

Optimally Repeatable Kinetic Model Variant for Myocardial Blood Flow Measurements with 82Rb PET

Table 1

Patient demographics ().

Healthy volunteers/CAD patients2/10
Sex (females/males)5/7
Age (mean ± SD [range]) [46–81] years
BMI (mean ± SD [range]) [24–43] m2/kg
Diabetic (no/IDDM/NIDDM)10/1/1
Smoker (never/current/past > 1 yr)6/3/3

BMI: body mass index.
IDDM: insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 1).
NIDDM: non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (type 2).