Evaluation of a new method for the continuous measurement of the distribution of the blood flow between the two lungs.
The magnitude of the pulmonary vasoconstrictor response to alveolar hypoxia may be studied by measuring the reduction in blood flow when one lung is ventilated with nitrogen. A radioisotope technique has been developed which permits the distribution of blood flow between the two lungs to be measured continuously. This technique was evaluated in dogs and found to be satisfactory.
D000818:Animals; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D004285:Dogs; D008722:Methods; D011652:Pulmonary Circulation; D011865:Radioisotope Dilution Technique; D013990:Tidal Volume; D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes
D014980:Xenon Radioisotopes