Bone blood flow measurement.
Methods of determining blood flow in bone are described and compared. Those based on clearances of bone-seeking tracers are inaccurate because of the variation of extraction with flow. The use of radioactive microspheres is the best available technique for measurements in animals; applications of this method are given. The washout of diffusible tracers is of limited use.
D000818:Animals; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D001775:Blood Circulation; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D008863:Microspheres; D011817:Rabbits