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Noninvasive measurement of bone mineral mass in the unanesthetized rabbit.

Direct photon absorptiometry was used for the in vivo measurement of bone mineral mass in the rabbit tibia. Bone mineral mass in 124 male and female rabbits was correlated (p less than 0.001) with age to 26 weeks and weight to 5.5 kg. Examining reproducibility and repositioning error, three rabbits were measured 12 times each. Bone mineral mass in the three rabbits was: 0.432 +/- 0.020 g/cm2, 0.414 +/- 0.010 g/cm2 and 0.487 +/- 0.037 g/cm2. The greatest coefficients of variance observed for measurements without repositioning and measurements with repositioning were 4.8% and 7.6%, respectively. The technique provided sensitive, reproducible and noninvasive measurement of bone mineral mass without anesthesia or undue restraint.

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Positron emission tomography.

Conventional nuclear imaging techniques utilizing lead collimation rely on radioactive tracers with little role in human physiology. The principles of imaging based on coincidence detection of the annihilation radiation produced in positron decay indicate that this mode of detection is uniquely suited for use in emission computed tomography. The only gamma-ray-emitting isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen are positron emitters, which yield energies too high for conventional imaging techniques. Thus development of positron emitters in nuclear medicine imaging would make possible the use of a new class of physiologically active, positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals. The application of these principles is described in the use of a physiologically active compound labeled with a positron emitter and positron-emission computed tomography to measure the local cerebral metabolic rate in humans.

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