Table 3.

Clinical studies using stem cell tracking with radionuclide tracers.

Imaging Technique	Tracer/Label	Study Authors	Patient no. (overall)	Setting (Patient no., intracoronary route)
SPECT Conventional NM	99mTc-HMPAO	Penicka et al.14	10	Acute MI (5), Chronic MI (5)
		Silva et al.25	24	Acute MI
		Musialek et al.15	34	Acute MI
		Goussetis et al.23	8	Chronic MI
	111In-oxine	Schaechinger et al.20	17	Acute MI (8), Chronic MI (5)
		Blocklet et al.21	6	Acute MI (3)
		Caveliers et al.22	8	Chronic MI (2)
PET	18F-FDG	Hoffmann et al.18	9	Acute MI (3)
		Kang et al.19	20	Acute MI
		Blocklet et al.21	6	Acute MI
		Dedobbeleer et al.24	7	Chronic MI