Detection and Sizing of Acute Myocardial Infarcts with^99mTc (Sn) Tetracycline

Noninvasive visualization of acute myocardial infarction in man with thallium-201.

“…Recently Holman et al reported on visualizing acute myocardial infarction as an area of increased radioactivity using 99mTc (Sn) tetracycline (Holman et al, 1974). Optical imaging, however, was not achieved until 24 hours after injection.…”

Localization of anti-mitochondrial antibody in experimental canine myocardial infarcts.

“…Various radionuclide imaging tests have been developed for the detection of irreversible cellular injury (9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15), and recently Beller, Haber, and their colleagues (16)(17)(18) have described the use of radiolabeled specific antibodies against cardiac myosin as another scintigraphic method for detecting irreversibly damaged myocardial cells. In the present study, we have tested the hypothesis that an antibody developed against mitochondria in a patient with primary biliary cirrhosis might be used to detect altered cell membrane permeability.…”

Morphologic correlates of technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate imaging of acute myocardial infarcts in dogs.

“…Two dogs in group III received 9.5 mCi -5 mg of 'mTc-PYP. The other 20 dogs received 3.0 rnCi -5 mg 99mTc-PYP. In some dogs, sequential myocardial scintigrams were obtained every few minutes throughout the first hour after injection of the radionuclide.…”