Cardiac Flow from Ammonia PET

Three models are available for the quantification of myocardial blood flow from ¹³NH₃ ammonia bolus PET data. Two use the 1-tissue compartment model below, and one the a 2-tissue compartment model with metabolic trapping. The 1-tissue models are preferably used with the first 2-4 minutes of a dynamic measurement, while the 2-tissue model is also adequate for longer durations. This may compensate to some extent the increased vulnerability to identifiability problems due to the higher number of fit parameters in the 2-tissue model.