[en] Conventional nuclear medicine procedures such as T1-201 scintigraphy allow only qualitative assessment of regional myocardial blood flow. PET provides attenuation-corrected images of myocardial tracer distribution and thus the potential for quantitative measurement of tracer kinetics. Dynamic PET imaging with high temporal resolution (10 sec/frame) after intravenous injection of the blood flow tracer N-13 ammonia was applied to seven healthy human subjects at rest and after intravenous dipyradamole. A three-compartmental tracer kinetic model was used to fit regional myocardial time-activity curves yielding estimates of blood flow and rate constants for tracer retention. At rest, blood flow averaged 64 +- 10 mL/min/100 g and increased after intravenous application of dipyridamole to 274 +- 84 mL/min/100 G. These PET values agree well with invasively measured coronary blood flow