Overview

FlowQuant is a clinical and research tool for quantifying myocardial blood flow (MBF) from nuclear medical images. 

The software is being developed at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Cardiac PET Centre under the supervision of Robert A. deKemp, PhD, PEng, PPhys as part of his research into cardiac function quantification using positron emission tomography (PET).

FlowQuant is now available for sale and distrubtion as a user friendly and flexible tool for routine clinical workload as well as for research.

Main Features

Menu designed for batch processing that can be saved and reloaded with all options maintained so that reprocessing with the same settings is possible.

• Complete automation with user interaction available
• Option hierarchy that enables quick changes to all studies as well as flexibility in customizing each study
• All processing step reports saved to image files
• Spooling options included 
• Support of major image types including:
  • DICOM
  • Siemens(*.v) files
  • Interfile
  • Siemens Inveon(*img) files
• Optional DICOM Convert Server for background conversion to Matlab(*mat) files
• Support of many kinetic models

Relevant Publications

• Klein, R. Renaud, J.M., Ziadi, M.C., Thorn, S.L., Adler, A., Beanlands, R.S., deKemp R.A., “Intra- and inter-operator repeatability of myocardial blood flow and myocardial flow reserve measurements using Rubdium-82 PET and a highly automated analysis program.”, J. Nucl. Cardiol., 2010;17(4):600-616.
• Lortie, M., Beanlands, R.S., Yoshinaga, K., Klein, R., DaSalvia, J.N., deKemp, R. A., “Quantification of myocardial blood flow with 82Rb dynamic PET imaging”, Eur.J.Nucl.Med. and Mol. Imaging., 2007; 34(11):1765-74.
• Klein, R., Lortie, M., Adler, A., Beanlands, R.S., deKemp, R. A., “Fully Automated Software for Polar-Map Registration and Sampling from PET Imaged”, Nucl. Sci. Symp. & Med. Imag. Conf. Record 2006:pp3185-88.