Simplifying [18F]GE-179 PET: are both arterial blood sampling and 90-min acquisitions essential?

Metabolic liver function measured in vivo by dynamic 18F-FDGal PET/CT without arterial blood sampling

BACKGROUND Metabolic liver function can be measured by dynamic PET/CT with the radio-labelled galactose-analogue 2-[(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-galactose ((18)F-FDGal) in terms of hepatic systemic clearance of (18)F-FDGal (K, ml blood/ml liver tissue/min). The method requires arterial blood sampling from a radial artery (arterial input function), and the aim of this study was to develop a method for...

Sampling arterial blood with a fine needle.

Lactate measurement: arterial versus venous blood sampling

Lactate is the end product of the metabolic process of glucose utilization, known as anaerobic glycolysis, which occurs in the cytoplasm of all cells. In well-oxygenated tissues this lactate is metabolized further, but if tissues are inadequately oxygenated, lactate accumulates locally and blood concentration increases. As a blood marker of tissue hypoxia, lactate measurement has long-establish...

Series which are both max-plus and min-plus rational are unambiguous

Consider partial maps Σ∗ −→ R with a rational domain. We show that two families of such series are actually the same: the unambiguous rational series on the one hand, and the max-plus and min-plus rational series on the other hand. The decidability of equality was known to hold in both families with different proofs, so the above unifies the picture. We give an effective procedure to build an u...

Interpretation of Arterial Blood Gas

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