(GBPS) The gated blood pool scintigraphy is an examination to evaluate the ventricular performance. This scintigraphic blood pool imaging uses an electrocardiographic synchronizer or gating device to acquire data during repeated heart cycles at specific times in the heart cycle. Radionuclides, for example 99mTc-humanserumalbumin (HSA), are used as intravascular tracers.
GBPS allows to determinate the left ventricular function with heart minute volume, ejection fraction (EF) at rest and under exercise. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) versus planar scintigraphic imaging improves cardiac evaluation due to the three dimensional nature. The GBPS method is not suitable to analyze the right ventricular function; that is best evaluated by first-pass ventriculography.
Echocardiography vs. GBPS has important disadvantages due to problems in quantitative evaluation, in patients with anatomic variations and dyskinetic left ventricles.

See also Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.