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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Physiol. 1996 Oct;271(4 Pt 2):H1643–H1655. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.1996.271.4.H1643

Table 3.

Effect of flow on SDinput/SDsystem ratio

SDinput/SDsystem

Flow,
ml·min−1·g−1
SDsystem, s LA injection
(SDinput = 3.06 s)
IV injection
(SDinput = 4.78 s)
0.4 11.7 0.26 0.41
0.8   5.79 0.53 0.82
1.2   3.96 0.77 1.2
2.7   2.46 1.2 1.9
5.0   1.19 2.1 3.3

SDinput, SD of vascular input; SDsystem, SD of residue function of microvascular system for an impulse input; LA, left atrial; IV, intravenous.