Figure 5

Distribution of FDG in the LV blood pool and the myocardium in the early phase of the study. Initial phase of the radiotracer input function in a "control animals" from VOIs assigned to LV blood pool and myocardium. The time axis is plotted logarithmically. A spillover of radioactivity could be observed no earlier than 100 s p.i.. Since only the first 60 s of the LV blood pool time-activity curve were used for the image-derived input function the influence activity spillover from the myocardium into the blood pool can be expected to be negligible.