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Article: SPECT/CT-plethysmography - non-invasive quantitation of bone and soft tissue blood flow.(Research article)(Single photon emission computed tomography / computed tomography )
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- Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
- Article date:
- August 18, 2008
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Authors: Lior Dayan [1]; Zohar Keidar [2]; Ora Israel [2]; Victor Milloul [3]; Johnathan Sachs [2]; Giris Jacob (corresponding author) [4]
Introduction
As with all organs, bone blood flow (BBF) is vital to ongoing skeletal function and growth. BBF preserved at a sufficient degree is a crucial component of normal bone turnover and contributes significantly to the basic metabolic processes preserving bone integrity, as well as to repair mechanisms in pathological conditions such as fractures, infections and osteoporosis [1].
Since blood flow to every organ is a dynamic process regulated by internal and external systems, its investigation ...
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