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Positron emission tomography (PET) by means of a dynamic state method and H2 15O was performed to quantify splenic blood flow in 20 patients who had no hepatic functional disorders. Non-linear regression analysis was applied to determine splenic blood flow. In calculating arterial input function for the spleen, our originalexponential method was used to facilitate computerization. Mean splenic blood flow per 100 g of spleen (SBF) was 168.0 ml/min/100 g with a standard error (SE) of 12.4 ml/min. The mean spleen-blood partition coefficient for water(ρ) was 0.767 with a SE of 0.020. Significant correlations were noted between the values for SBF obtained by theexponential method andlinear method in which individual increasing values for arterial15O concentration were used rectilinearly (r=0.96, p< 0.005) and also between the values for ρ obtained by the two methods (r=0.95, p< 0.005). In order to validate the application of a one compartment model to an organ with a large blood volume such as the spleen, a further experiment was performed with a water flow model simulating splenic circulation.
We succeeded in quantifying regional splenic blood flow by PET. It was thought that the quantification of splenic blood flow by our method would be beneficial in the study of splenic circulation, which is expected to be altered under conditions of portal hypertension, liver dysfunction and shock, etc.
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Oguro, A., Taniguchi, H., Koyama, H. et al. Quantification of human splenic blood flow (Quantitative measurement of splenic blood flow with H2 15O and a dynamic state method: 1). Ann Nucl Med 7, 245–250 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03164705
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