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Table 4 Mean Myocardial Blood Flow before and after residual activity correction divided by territory

From: Myocardial blood flow and myocardial flow reserve values in 13N–ammonia myocardial perfusion PET/CT using a time-efficient protocol in patients without coronary artery disease

Territory

MBF stress before RAC (ml/g/min)

MBF stress after RAC (ml/g/min)

P-value

LAD

2.87 ± 0.45a

2.47 ± 0.41a

<  0.001

LCX

3.07 ± 0.45

2.69 ± 0.42

<  0.001

RCA

2.94 ± 0.47

2.55 ± 0.45

<  0.001

Global

2.93 ± 0.44

2.54 ± 0.41

<  0.001

  1. Mean results ± standard deviation
  2. MBF Myocardial Blood Flow, RAC Residual Activity Correction, LAD Left Anterior Descending, LCX Left Circumflex, RCA Right Coronary Artery
  3. anot normally distributed by Shapiro-Wilk test