The determination of regional cerebral blood flow by means of water labeled with radioactive oxygen 15.
The determination of regional cerebral blood flow by means of water labeled with radioactive oxygen 15.
复制标题
放射性氧标记水测定局部脑血流量15。
作者:
M. M. Ter;J. Eichling;Davis Do;M J Welch;Judith M. Metzger
THE NUMBER of methods devised for the in vivo evaluation of regional cerebral flow (rCBF) attest to the elusiveness of this parameter. One of the methods for this purpose is the injection, into the internal carotid artery of a subject, of a diffusible indicator labeled with a gammaemitting radioisotope, followed by the external measurement of the rate of washout of the indicator from various regions of the brain. This approach (1, 2), a modification of the Kety–Schmidt method (3–5), has most frequently utilized saline solutions of radioactive inert gases such as krypton 85 (1, 2) and xenon 133 (6). At this time, 133Xe appears to be the most widely used diffusible indicator despite inherent limitations which include: (a) a different solubility in lipids and in water; (b) a brain–blood partition coefficient difficult to evaluate accurately; and (c) the low–energy electromagnetic radiation of 133Xe. The first two factors render absolute flow determinations by this indicator uncertain and the third one favors...