Between cleaning procedures, series of 200 consecutive curves, lasting a few minutes, were acquired.
A second acquisition after 180 minutes was acquired to evaluate the SUV value variation.
Static emission scan (20 minutes) was acquired with the rats placed in a prone position on the acquisition bed and the two hindlimbs in the field of view.
Due to a heart frequency of >70 per minute, images were acquired every second heartbeat.
Eight series of 1.11 minute-duration were acquired with a sub-millimeter spatial resolution.
Because drainage of macromolecules by the lymphatics is a slow event with rates of 2.3 to 3.7 μl/g minutes, images were acquired in two "phases" corresponding to the biphasic kinetics of the BSA-Gd-DTPA [ 15].
Throughout the protocol, EAdi, Paw, flow, VT, f, and minute ventilation (VE) were acquired from the Servo-I ventilator into a personal computer, by using "Servo-tracker" software (Maquet).
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Ten-minute static scans were acquired at 1.0 h after injection and animals were maintained under isoflurane anesthesia during scanning period.
After a stabilization period of 5 minutes, fluorescence measurements were acquired at 37°C in an Amersham FARCyte/Tecan Ultra fluorescence plate reader (Amersham Biotech, now part of GE Healthcare, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, UK).
