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Cardiac Flow from Rubidium-82 PET

Two kinetic models are available for the quantification of myocardial perfusion from 82Rb bolus PET data.

  1. A 1-tissue compartment model with geometrical spillover correction and correction for flow-dependent extraction.
  2. A 2-tissue compartment model with recovery and spillover correction.