Research Article

Comparison of 111In Leakage from Labeled Endocardial and Epicardial Cells: Impact on Modeling Viability of Cells to Be Transplanted into Myocardium

Figure 3

SPECT time-activity curves of 111In clearance from canine myocardium. Canines were directly injected with 111In-tropolone either by endocardial route via catheter (dotted lines) or epicardial route following thoracotomy (solid lines). Canines were serially imaged with SPECT on transplantation day with three follow-up imaging sessions. Region of interest analysis was conducted on images corrected for physical decay and background and fit to bi-exponential curves.
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