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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Cardiol. 2017 Sep 1;25(2):665–670. doi: 10.1007/s12350-017-1049-y

Figure 5.

Figure 5.

TACs from a clinical stress study that exhibits the characteristics of cardiac creep. Rising tissue curves after the tracer clears from the blood deviate from the expected curve shape (flat). Typically, this is caused by myocardial creep that is induced by the pharmacologic stressing agent.