WEINSTEIN AND SMOAK the repetitive saline washings were delayed until heating cells to
49.5 ÂCas described by Fisher et al (2), the same results are observed. Increasing volumes …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten milliliters of human blood were added to 2.5 ml of ACD
solution. The erythrocytes were separated from the plasma and suspended in physiological …

D9mTc pertechnetate in thyroid and brain scanning(1). The extraordinarily fa vorable
radiation characteristics of this radioisotope have made it the most desirable isotope for …

99mTc has been described previously. It consists of adding pertechnetate in small volume to
separated erythrocytes followed by reduction with stannous chloride in acid-citrate-dextrose …

jIUfl/IN VITRO NUCLEAR MEDICINE Page 1 Phosphorus-32-diisopropylfluorophosphate (32PDFP)
has proved to be an almost ideal label for the study of neutrophil kinetics since its …

METhODS The labeling procedure of the initial experiments was as follows. Heparinized
whole blood was transferred to a vial, and the stannous kit (see †œTitrationof Tin …

MATERIALS AND METHODS All experiments were conducted with human blood from
volunteers. The percent labeling (percent of nDmTcassociated with the RBCs) was …

MATERIALS AND METHODS The studies were performed on six healthy young adult male
rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). The animals weighed approximately 10 lb with the cx …

Formeasurementof% Unbound@ mTc, thebloodwasremoved from the rotating inverter and
placed in a laminar flow cabinet, transferred to a 12 ml shielded centrifuge tube, made up to …

An editorial is presented which considers some aspects of the problems associated with
studies utilizing radioactively labeled blood cells. For many years, nuclear medicine …