SOME SOURCES OF ERROR IN MEASURING REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW WITH RADIOACTIVE MICROSPHERES
SOME SOURCES OF ERROR IN MEASURING REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW WITH RADIOACTIVE MICROSPHERES
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DOI:
10.1152/jappl.1971.31.4.598
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
FIXLER, DE
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作者:
BUCKBERG, GD;LUCK, JC;FIXLER, DE
JULIEN IE HOFFMAN, JOSEPH P. ARCHIE, AND DAVID E. FIXLER. Some sources of error in measuring regional blood flow with radioactive microspheres. J. Appl. Physiol. 3 l (4): 538-604. 197 1.-Radioactive microspheres(8-50 p diameter) distribute in proportion to regional blood flow so that their concentrations in all arteries should be similar but for random variation. Varying numbers of microspheres were injected into the left atrium and ventricles of lambs, sheep, and dogs, and microsphere concentrations were measured in samples drawn simultaneously from two or more arteries (femoral, carotid, or aorta), in the free walls of the left and right ventricles and both kidneys. Coronary and renal blood flows were measured with microspheres(using peripheral reference samples) and by independent methods. Despite some nonrandomness (poor mixing) errors were usually under 20% for all injection and sampling sites in both species as long as each sample had over 400 microspheres; lesser numbers caused errors up to 1 13y0. Variability was less in dogs than sheep, less for left atria1 injections, but equivalent in all arteries. Coronary and renal flows by microspheres were usually within 20y0 and 6%, respectively, of measured flow. The greatest precision occurs on injection of the largest number of microspheres consistent with no physiological changes. binomial distribution; Poisson variate; coronary blood flow; renal blood flow; left atria1 injection; left ventricular injectionRECENTLY RUDOLPH AND HEYMANN(8) introduced a method of measuring regional blood flow with radioactive micro-spheres 50 p in diameter. These were injected into the cir-culation and traveled to the small peripheral vessels where they were trapped; the organs were then removed and their radioactivity measured. Repeated measurements could be made by using different nuclides and separating them by gamma spectrometry. In several studies they and other workers (2, 3, 5, 8) showed that the fraction of total radioactiyity in various organs was similar to the fraction of cardiac output reaching those organs during the transit of the spheres, but the variability of the method and the factors responsible for that variability have not yet been fully defined.