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Measurement of regional substrate utilization rates by emission tomography
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 3, 1978
Abstract:
Emission tomography can be used to monitor, in vivo and regionally, the utilization of metabolic substrates labeled with positron-emitting radioisotopes produced by a cyclotron. The concept was validated by measuring brain glucose utilization with carbon--11-labeled glucose in rhesus monkeys.