Accuracy of a Method Using Short Inhalation of 15O-O2 for Measuring Cerebral Oxygen Extraction Fraction with PET in Healthy Humans
Naoya Hattori, MD, PhD1,
Marvin Bergsneider, MD2,
Hsiao-Ming Wu, PhD1,
Thomas C. Glenn, PhD2,
Paul M. Vespa, MD2,
David A. Hovda, PhD1,2,
Michael E. Phelps, PhD1,3 and
Sung-Cheng Huang, DSc1,3
1 Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
2 Brain Injury Research Center, UCLA Division of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
3 UCLA-DOE Center for Molecular Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California

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FIGURE 1. Example of parametric images. Parametric images of CBV (top left) and CBF (top right) were used to generate OEF image (bottom left). Parametric image for CMRO2 (bottom right) was generated by applying the following formula to each pixel: CMRO2 = CaO2 x OEF x CBF.
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FIGURE 2. (A) Agreement of OEFpet and OEFav. The cross-line indicates the mean value for OEFpet and OEFav. (B) Bland-Altman plot of the same data.
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