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In this chapter we meet a general method for the treatment of the body as a whole system in which the behaviour of substances can by described mathematically. We will apply the same principles to tracer kinetics to measure the delivery of a contrast agent to tissue in medical imaging applications. We will introduce compartmental models built around the ADME principles to write down and to solve differential equations for simple pharmacokinetics problems and do similarly for simple tracer kinetic problems.
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Chappell, M., Payne, S. (2020). Pharmacokinetics. In: Physiology for Engineers. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39705-0_5
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