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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2016 Jan 20;61(3):1238–1258. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/3/1238

Glossary of symbols

b(t) Input function
B(t) Tracer concentration in whole-blood
R(t) Modeled time-activity curve
fB Fractional contribution of B(t) to the imaging measurement
K1, k2k5 Rate constants for 1K-5K serial compartment models
κB, κb, κ1, κ2 Linear parameters of the separable parameter space formulations
υ1, υ2 Nonlinear parameters of the separable parameter space formulations
b̆(t) Temporal term (integral of b(t)), present in 1K, 3K, and 5K models
S1(t; υ1; b(t)) Temporal term present in 2K–5K compartment models
S2(t; υ1, υ2; b(t)) Temporal term present in 4K–5K compartment models