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Tc-99m HMPAO Brain SPECT in Patients with Post-Traumatic Organic Mental Disorder (두부외상후 만성 기질성 정신장애 환자에서 Tc-99m HMPAO Brain SPECT 분석)

  • Lee, Kang-Wook;Lee, Jong-Jin;Shong, Min-Ho;Kang, Min-Hee;Ghi, Ick-Sung;Shin, Young-Tai;Ro, Heung-Kyu
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.293-300
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    • 1994
  • It is well known that Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT can reflect the functional lesions better than X-ray computerized tomography(CT) and magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) in the cerebral disorders. In order to evaluate the clinical utilities of Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT in patients with post-traumatic chronic organic mental disorder(OMD), we included 28 patients diagnosed as OMD in department of psychiatry after traumatic head injury. And we compared the results of Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT with those of MRI, EEG and MINI mental status ex amination(MMSE). The results were as follows 1) All patients diagnosed as OMD showed diffuse or focal decreased cerebral perfusion on Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT. 2) Most frequent lesion on brain Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT was decreased perfusion on both frontal lobe. And most frequent lesion on brain Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT showing normal brain MRI result was also decreased both frontal perfusion. 3) Eight of 28 patients showed focal brain MRI lesions(4 small frontal hygroma, 3 small cerebral infarction and 1 cerebellar encephalomalacia) which were not detected in brain Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT. 4) The patients showing less than 20 points on MMSE disclosed abnormal results of EEG more frequently than those disclosing more than 20 points. In conclusion, we think that Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT is sensitive method to detect functional lesions of the brains in patients with chronic post-traumatic organic mental disorder.

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Brain SPECT Using $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO and $^{99m}Tc$-ECD in Subacute Cerebral Infarction: Case Report (아급성 뇌경색 환자에서 $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO 및 $^{99m}Tc$-ECD 뇌 SPECT: 증례보고)

  • Ahn, Byeong-Cheol;Lee, Dong-Soo;Yoon, Byung-Woo;So, Young;Jung, June-Key;Lee, Myung-Chul;Koh, Chang-Soon
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.570-575
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    • 1996
  • For brain perfusion SPECT imaging, $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO and $^{99m}Tc$-ECD are commonly used. Although these two tracers usually show similar distribution, it is well known that discrepant finding might be noted between $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO and $^{99m}Tc$-ECD imaging in some conditions. Luxury perfusion(perfusion/metabolism mismatch) is one of the examples and could be observed in subacute cerebral infarction. We report a case of subacute cerebral infarction that revealed luxury perfusion. Increased perfusion was found in $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO SPECT and perfusion defect was found in $^{99m}Tc$-ECD SPECT. We found large area of mismatch with a consecutive acquisition-subtraction method. Crossed cerebellar diaschisis was observed in both SPECT images.

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A Study on the Extraction Rate of Brain Tissues from a $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO Cerebral Blood flow SPECT Examination of a Patient ($^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO 뇌혈류 SPECT 검사 시 환자에 따른 뇌조직 추출률에 대한 고찰)

  • Kim, Hwa-San;Lee, Dong-Ho;Ahn, Byeong-Pil;Kim, Hyun-Ki;Jung, Jin-Yung;Lee, Hyung-Nam;Kim, Jung-Ho
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.17-26
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    • 2012
  • Purpose: This study mainly focuses on the patients treated with chemically stable radiopharmaceutical product $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO (d,l-hexamethylpropylene amine oxime) which yielded reduced image quality due to a decreased brain extraction rate. $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO will be examined further to determine whether this product may be accounted as a factor for this cause. Material and Methods: From January 2010 until December 2010, out of 272 patients who were all subjected to $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO brain blood flow SPECT scans resulting from Cerebral Infarction; 23 patients(ages $55.3{\pm}9$, 21 males, 3 females) with decreased tissue extraction rate were examined in detail. The radiopharmaceutical product $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO was used on patients with normal brain tissue exchange rate as well as those with reduced rate in order to prove its' chemical stability. The patients' age, sex, blood pressure, existence of diabetes, drug use, current health status, known side effects from CT/MRI, examination of the patients' past SPECT before/after images were accounted to determine the factors and correlations affecting the rate of blood tissue extractions. Result: After multiple linear regression analysis, there were no unusual correlations between the 6 factors excluding sex, and before/after examination images. Male subjects showed reduced brain tissue extraction rate than the females ($p$ > 0.05) 91.3% male, 8.7% female. Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Signed-Ranks Test was used on the before/after images which yielded a value of 0.06, which did not indicate a significant amount of difference on the 2 tests ($p$ > 0.05). As a result, the before/after images indicated similar brain tissue extraction rates, and there were variations depending on the individual patient. Conclusion: The effects of the chemically stable radiopharmaceutical product $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO depended on the patient's personal characteristics and status, therefore was considered to be a factor in reducing brain tissue extraction rate. The related articles of $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO cerebral blood flow SPECT speculates a cerebrovascular disease and factors resulting from portal veins, and it was not possible to pin point the exact cause of decreasing brain tissue extraction rate. However, the $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO cerebral blood flow SPECT scan proved to be extremely useful in tracking and inspecting brain diseases, as well as offering accurate results from patients suffering from reduced brain tissue extraction rates.

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Clinical Utility of $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Brain SPECT Findings in Chronic Head Injury (만성 두부외상 환자에서 $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Brain SPECT의 임상적 유용성)

  • Chung, Jin-Ill;Chung, Tae-Sub;Suh, Jung-Ho;Kim, Dong-Ik;Lee, Jong-Doo;Park, Chang-Yoon;Kim, Young-Soo
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.26-32
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    • 1992
  • Minimal deterioration of cerebral perfusion or microanatomical changes were undetectable on conventional Brain CT or MRI. So evaluation of focal functional changes of the brain parenchyme is essential in chronic head injury patients, who did not show focal anatomical changes on these radiological studies. However, the patients who had longstanding neurologic sequelae following head injury, there had been no available imaging modalities for evaluating these patients precisely. Therefore we tried to detect the focal functional changes on the brain parenchyme using $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Brain SPECT on the patients of chronic head injuries. Twenty three patients who had suffered from headache, memory dysfunction, personality change and insomnia lasting more than six months fellowing head injury were included in our cases, which showed no anatomical abnormalities on Brain CT or MRI. At first they underwent psychological test whether the symptoms were organic or not. Also we were able to evaluate the cerebral perfusion changes with $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Brain SPECT in 22 patients among the 23, which five patients were focal and 17 patients were nonfocally diffuse perfusion changes. Thus we can predict the perfusion changes such as local vascular deterioration or functional defects using $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Brain SPECT in the patients who had suffered from post-traumatic sequelae, which changes were undetectable on Brain CT or MRI.

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$^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Brain SPECT in Medically Intraetable Epilepsy; Ictal Study (간질증후군의 $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Brain SPECT; Ictal Study)

  • Chung, Tae-Sub;Suh, Jung-Ho;Kim, Dong-Ik;Lee, Jong-Doo;Park, Chang-Yun;Hong, Yong-Kook;Lee, Byung-In;Huh, Kyun
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.244-250
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    • 1992
  • Both interictal and ictal $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ brain SPECT were performed in 22 patients with medically intractable epilepsy. Localization of epileptic foci in our patients was made by combined results of EEG and other tests, including Wada test, magnetic resonance imaging, and neuropsychometric test. Among them, ictal $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ SPECT, localized epilptic foci in 20 of 22 patients and provided evidence of epileptic focus in 12 patients by demonstrating maximally increased regional cerebral perfusion (rCP) in epileptic foci during the ictal study with decreased rCP in interictal study. Ictal $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ SPECT was particularly useful for investigating epileptic foci, and when correlated with simultaneously recorded ictal EEG, provided further insight for localizing epileptic foci. Conclusively, $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ SPECT is. a useful, noninvasive method of localizing epileptic activity which may be particularly important for presurgical investigations, especially in those patients without large morphological lesions.

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Significant Reperfusion on $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ SPECT in a Case of Subacute MCA Infarction (한의학적 치료로 $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ SPECT상 현저한 재관류를 보인 아급성기 중대뇌동맥경색 환자 1례)

  • Park, Jung-Mi;Jung, Woo-Sang;Seo, Al-An
    • The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.437-442
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    • 2001
  • For ischemic cerebrovascular disease, it is well known that early luxury perfusion is related to a good clinical outcome and single photon emission computed tomography(SPECT) has the potential for providing useful information about regional cerebral blood flow. We report one case of Rt. MCA infarction mainly treated by oriental medicine and revealed luxury perfusion without thrombolysis. In acute stage, neurological deficits of the patient were very severe. 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT images obtained 10days after the attack showed large perfusion defect in the Rt. MCA territory. We followed up 99mTc-HMPAO SPECT 40days after the ictus. Despite of the poor early perfusion, we found considerably improved perfusion and neurological improvement.

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Assessment of Cerebral Collateral Circulation Using $^{99m}Tc$-Hexamethyleneamine Oxime (HMPAO) SPECT During Internal Carotid Artery Balloon Test Occlusion (내경동맥 풍선 시험 결찰술(BTO)시 $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO 뇌 SPECT를 이용한 대뇌 측부 순환의 평가)

  • Ryu, Young-Hoon;Yun, Mi-Jin;Chung, Tae-Sub;Lee, Jong-Doo;Park, Chang-Yun
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.22-30
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    • 1995
  • To predict preoperatively the safety of permanent occlusion of an internal carotid artery with $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO brain single photon emission computed tomography(SPECT) from an objective point of view, Twenty-four patients underwent balloon test occlusion (BTO) of the internal carotid arteries because of neck and skull base tumors. The authors assessed the uptake of both middle cerebral artery territories before and during BTO with $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO brain SPECT using semiquantitative analysis method and compared the results with other factors(neurologic examination, arterial stump pressure and electroenceph-alogram). Nineteen patients had not experienced neurological deteriorating or any problem during BTO. Their comparative uptakes of the middle cerebral artery territories were 95 to 101% of the pre-BTO state. The remaining five patients showed severe neurologic symptoms such as transient hemiplegia and unconsciousness. Their comparative uptake of the middle cerebral artery territories were 77 to 85% of the pre-BTO state, and were well matched with other factors. $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO brain SPECT before and during BTO seems to be a simple and objective method for prediction of permanent neurologic deficits when the comparative uptake of middle cerebral artery territories during BTO is lower than 85% of that before BTO.

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Optimization of Correction Factor for Linearization with Tc-99m HM PAO and Tc-99m ECD Brain SPECT (Tc-99m HMPAO와 Tc-99m ECD 뇌SPECT의 뇌혈류량 정량화에 사용되는 Linearization Algorithm의 Correction Factor 조사)

  • Cho, Ihn-Ho;Hayashida, Kohei;Won, Kyu-Chang;Lee, Hyoung-Woo;Watabe, Hiroshi;Kume, Norihiko;Uyama, Chikao
    • Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.237-243
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    • 1999
  • We conducted this study to find the optimal correction factor(${\alpha}$) of Lassen's linearization algorithm which has been applied for correction of flow-limited uptake at a high flow range in $^{99m}Tc$ d,l-hexamethylpropy leneamine oxime(HMPAO) and $^{99m}Tc$ ethyl cysteinate dimer(ECD). Ten patients with chronic cerebral infarction were involved in this study. We obtained the corrected $^{99m}Tc$ HMPAO and $^{99m}Tc$-ECD brain SPECT(single photon emission computed tomography) using the algorithm with ${\alpha}$ values that varied from 0.1 to 10 and compared the results with regional cerebral blood flow determined by positron emission tomography (PET-rCBF). The multi-modal volume registration by maximization of mutual information was used for matching between PET-rCBF and SPECT images. The highest correlation coefficient between $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO and $^{99m}Tc$-ECD brain uptake and PET-rCBF was revealed at ${\alpha}$ 1.4 and 2.1, respectively. We concluded that the ${\alpha}$ values of Lassen's linearization algorithm for $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO and $^{99m}Tc$-ECD brain SPECT images were 1.4 and 2.1, respectively to indicate cerebral blood flow with comparison of PET-rCBF.

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$^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ Regional Cerebral Blood Flow SPECT in Transient Ischemic Attacks (일과성 뇌허혈 발작 환자에 있어서 $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$ 국소 뇌혈류 SPECT의 유용성)

  • Ahn, Myeong-Im;Park, Young-Ha;Lee, Sung-Yong;Chung, Soo-Kyo;Kim, Jong-Woo;Bahk, Yong-Whee
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.149-154
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    • 1989
  • Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) is a syndrome resulting from brain ischemia lasting less than 24 hours. The mechanisms of TIAs may be similar to those of cerebral embolism and thrombosis, and thus TIAs may be followed by cerebral infarction. Despite the availability of CT scanning, the diagnosis and management of TIAs continue to be difficult. Recently SPECT has been advocated as a diagnostic imaging modality. We performed Tc-99m-HMPAO regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) SPECT in 24 patients with the clinical diagnosis of TIAs to assess its ability to detect early changes of rCBF, and determine the diagnostic value. Ten men and fourteen women with an average of 51 years (range; 27-74 years) were included. All but 8 patients had normal brain CT prior to SPECT. The two patients had moderate degree of brain atrophy and the 6 patients nonspecific calcifications. Eighteen of the 24 patients had abnormal Tc-99m-HMPAO rCBF SPECT. Fifteen had unilateral involvement and the other three had bilateral involvements. Seventy-five percents of the defects were found in the left cerebral hemisphere. According to the distribution of the lesions (total number: 34 lesions), fourteen were in the parietal, eight in the temporal, and the remainders were elsewhere. Tc-99m-HMPAO rCBF SPECT is sensitive in detecting rCBF abnormalities in patients with TIAs, and represent the most accurate diagnostic tool available in the diagnosis of TIAs.

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Study on Labeling Efficiency of $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO ($^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO 표지효율에 대한 고찰)

  • Hyeon, Jun Ho;Lim, Hyeon Jin;Kim, Ha Kyun;Cho, Seong Uk;Kim, Jin Eui
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.131-134
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    • 2012
  • Purpose : The labeling efficiency of radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine is important in terms of accuracy and reliability of the examination. Usually $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO used for brain SPECT scan is chemically unstable since lots of impurities are existing. Therefore, occurrence of loss of labeling efficiency is easy to appear. In this paper, labeling and use of $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO should be helpful through experiments on factors affecting the labeling efficiency of $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO. Materials and Methods : Domestic HMPAO vials (Dong-A) used for brain SPECT scan were tested. Domestic Samyeong Generator 55.5 GBq (1,500 mCi), TLC measurement sets (ITLC-SG, butanone, saline, TLC chamber) and radio-TLC scanner (Advantest, Bioscan) were used. In the first experiment, after eluting generator at 1, 8, 16, 24, 28 hours apart, each eluted $^{99m}Tc$-pertechnetate were labeled with HMPAO and the labeling efficiency was measured. In the second experiment, after eluting $^{99m}Tc$-pertechnetate from a generator, $^{99m}Tc$-pertechnetate was drawn at 0, 1, 3, 6 hours. And each drawn $^{99m}Tc$-pertechnetate were labeled with HMPAO for measuring labeling efficiency. In the third experiment, labeling efficiency was measured at 0, 0.5, 3, 5, 7 hours after labeling $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO. Results : In the first experiment, measured values were appeared 95.05, 94.64, 94.94, 95.64, 96.76% in passing order of time. In the second experiment, measured values were appeared 94.38, 94.23, 93.26, 91.03% in passing order of time. In the third experiment, measured values were appeared 95.76, 94.17, 88.19, 83.6, 76.86% in passing order of time. Conclusion : In the first experiment of this paper, labeling efficiency of $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO labeled with $^{99m}Tc$-pertechnetate eluted after 24 hours from first elution. Additional experiments will be needed to discuss for usability. In the second experiment, the labeling efficiency was slightly decreased in chronological order, but it was measured higher than 90%. Also, additional experiments will be needed to discuss for usability. In the third experiment, the labeling efficiency was decreased considerably. Especially, within 3 hours after the labeling is recommended to use $^{99m}Tc$-HMPAO

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