The art and science of the use of deposition markers for the estimation of blood flow
distributions throughout the body and within organs is reviewed. Development of diffusible …

An association between abnormal gastrointestinal perfusion and critical illness has been
suggested for a number of years. Much of the data to support this idea comes from studies …

Results obtained by experimental studies of the ischemic heart have been of tremendous
importance for the understanding of physiology, biochemistry and lately also the molecular …

Objective: Impaired systolic function in the normally perfused myocardium adjacent to an
ischemic region—the functional border zone—is thought to result from mechanical …

With the use of a newly developed Imaging Cryomicrotome to determine the spatial location
of fluorescent microspheres in organs, we validate and report our processing algorithms for …

To compare the relative contributions of gravity and vascular structure to the distribution of
pulmonary blood flow, we flew with pigs on the National Aeronautics and Space …

Chronically instrumented dogs underwent 2-or 5-h regional reductions in coronary flow that
were followed, respectively, by balanced reductions in myocardial contraction and O2 …

An automated image acquisition and analysis system has been developed that rapidly
determines regional blood flow by using the locations of fluorescent microspheres deposited …

Effects of norepinephrine on the distribution of intestinal... : Critical Care Medicine Effects of
norepinephrine on the distribution of intestinal blood flow and tissue adenosine triphosphate …

Fluorescent-labeled microspheres (FM) are a new tool for the determination of organ blood
flow. However, the FM-method is labor intensive, because of the necessity to recover the …