simmetab 0.2.0 © 2007,2011 by Turku PET Centre

Simulation of PET plasma time-radioactivity concentration curve (TAC) of parent tracer and its metabolite from total arterial plasma (Ca) TAC based on compartment model (1). Usage: simmetab [Options] <Plasma file> <Parameter file> <Parent TAC file> Options: -metab=<Filename> Write plasma metabolite TAC in specified file -h or --help Print this message and exit -v, --version or --build Print software build information and exit --silent Program works silently, printing only error and warning messages. If the times in plasma file are in seconds, the units of rate constants must be specified as 1/sec. For accurate results, plasma data should have very frequent sampling. Parameter file must contain (at least): -Name of metabolite model -Model parameter values For example, model := TPCMOD0009C km := 0.8 k1m := 0.5 k2m := 0.4 k3m := 0.1 k4m := 0 Accepted metabolite models are: -TPC metabolite model (2) References: 1. Lammertsma AA, Hume SP, Bench CJ, Luthra SK, Osman S, Jones T. Measurement of monoamine oxidase B activity using L-[11C]derenyl: Inclusion of compartmental analysis of plasma metabolites and a new model not requiring measurement of plasma metabolites. In: Quantification of Brain Function: Tracer Kinetics and Image Analysis in Brain PET (Uemura K, Lassen NA, Jones T, Kanno I, eds) Amsterdam, Excerpta Medica (pp) 313-318, 1993. 2. Oikonen V. New model for plasma metabolites. http://www.turkupetcentre.net/reports/tpcmod0009_app_c.pdf See also: metabcor, fit_ppf, dft2svg Keywords: DFT, input, metabolite correction, simulation This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under GNU General Public License.
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