1. Minimal Safe Arterial Blood Flow During Selective Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion at 20° Centigrade 
Ove Jonsson, MD, Arvid Morell, MS, Vitas Zemgulis, MD, PhD, Elin Lundström, MS, Thomas Tovedal, MS, Gunnar Myrdal Einarsson, MD, PhD, Stefan Thelin, MD, PhD, Håkan Ahlström, MD, PhD, Atle Björnerud, PhD, Fredrik Lennmyr, MD, PhD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 91, Issue 4, Pages (April 2011)
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2. Fig 1
Experimental design. The blood flow was changed stepwise from mL · kg−1 · min−1 in group 1 and kept at mL · kg−1 · min−1 in group 2. The timing of the repeated magnetic resonance (MR) measurements is shown for each flow level, including perfusion- (red) and diffusion-weighted (blue) imaging and spectroscopy (grey). Markers indicate arterial blood gas (x) and protein S100β sampling (*). The baseline samples were collected immediately before the start of selective antegrade cerebral perfusion.
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3. Fig 2
Results for group 1 (■) and group 2 (□) with the last data set at 8/6 mL · kg−1 · min−1 (dashed grey). Relative lactate to creatine ratio at different flow levels (A) and lactate concentrations in blood (B). Relative changes of protein S100β concentrations (C). Prolongation of the mean transit time (MTT) of the gadolinium contrast agent in perfusion-weighted imaging demonstrating the coherence between flow settings and cerebral flow response (D). Mean arterial pressure (MAP) and mixed venous oxygen saturation (Svo2) across the experiment (E) and (F). * = p < 0.05.
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4. Fig 3
Magnetic resonance spectra collected at 5 flow levels for 1 subject, last dataset at 8 mL · kg−1 · min−1 (dashed grey). The peaks correspond to different metabolites and the amplitude of the peak to the metabolite concentration. The double peak representing lactate at 1.3 ppm increases during the experiment while the creatine peak at 3 ppm, used for normalization, remains constant.
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5. Fig 4
Four types of relative parametric images (rows) illustrating the regional distribution of the perfusion parameters for 2 subjects (columns). From top down the images reflect cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV), mean transit time (MTT) and time to peak (TTP). Left column subject display lateral differences in contrast to the symmetry of the subject in the right column; right hemisphere have reduced CBF and CBV while MTT and TTP are extended. Both data sets are from the second measurement for the subjects and acquired at 6 mL · kg−1 · min−1.
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