Technetium 99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine gamma camera clearance calculations: methodological problems |
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Authors: | Marianne Tondeur Amnon Piepsz André Dobbeleir Hamphrey Ham |
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Institution: | (1) Service des Radioisotopes, Hôpital Saint Pierre, Free Univerities of Brussels, Rue Haute 322, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Major sources of errors in the gamma-camera methods for the calculation of renal clearance are the accuracy of background correction for obtaining the true renal time-activity curve and the validity of the externally recorded pre-cordial activity as an estimate of the plasmatic time-activity curve. With technetium 99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine (99mTc-MAG3), because of its high protein plasma binding, one could expect minimal extravascular diffusion and hence a more accurate externally detected plasmatic curve. The high extraction rate should reduce the influence of the background, but, on the other hand, the effect of hepatobiliary excretion on the calculation of renal clearance might be significant. Our results suggest that the hepatobiliary excretion of99mTc-MAG3 does not influence the gamma-camera renal clearance determination, even in patients with low renal function. However, the pre-cordial curve does not reflect accurately the plasmatic disappearance curve; its calibration with a single plasma sample taken at the 20th min is responsible for significant errors, probably because of an unfavourable ratio between the intravascular and extravascular activities at the 20th min.
Offprint requests to: M. TondeurParts of this work have been presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society, London, in April 1989. |
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Keywords: | Technetium 99m mercaptoacetyltriglycine (99mTc-MAG3) Renal clearance |
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