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The Reality and Meaning of Physiological Factors

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The term “physiological factor” was introduced by Bazin et al. (1979) for a time-activity curve detected above the separate compartment of a radio-pharmaceutical in the body. Considering formally the elementary time-activity curves recorded in dynamic radionuclide study as vectors then the physiological factors can be regarded as a non-orthogonal base of the corresponding vector space. Under certain restrictive conditions this base can be found by the methods of factor analysis.

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Šámal, M., Sůrová, H., Kárný, M., Maříková, E., Pěnička, P., Dienstbier, Z. (1988). The Reality and Meaning of Physiological Factors. In: de Graaf, C.N., Viergever, M.A. (eds) Information Processing in Medical Imaging. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7263-3_33

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