Review Article
Quantitative Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography: The Time Is Coming!
Table 1
Comparison of the features of the main PET myocardial perfusion tracers.
| | Tracer | Patient throughput | Availability | Image quality | Background | Quantitation |
| | High | Low | Very poor | NA | Optimal | |
13NH3 | Medium | Medium | Fair to good | Quite high | Good | |
82Rb | High | High | Fair to good | Acceptable | Fair | |
18F-agents | Low | High | High | Low | Good |
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