1. NM Study of Myocardial Perfusion

• Perfusion (ml/sec):

  The quantity of blood flow through the capillary
  
  vessels expressed as volume per time

• Myocardium:

  ½the muscle of the heart½
  

• To detect:

  • myocardial infarction
  • pre-infarction state

• Deviation: low perfusion

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