'Oxygen Level in a Tissue' - What Do Available Measurements Really Report?
(2020) Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology — Vol. 1232, p. 145-153 (2020)
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- The aim of the paper is to discuss what currently is feasible clinically to measure the level of oxygen and how that measurement can be clinically useful. Because oxygen in tissues is quite heterogeneous and all methods of measurement can only provide an average across heterogeneities at some spatial and temporal resolution, the values that are obtained may have limitations on their clinical utility. However, even if such limitations are significant, if one utilizes repeated measurements and focuses on changes in the measured levels, rather than 'absolute levels', it may be possible to obtain very useful clinical information. While these considerations are especially pertinent in cancer, they also pertain to most other types of pathology.
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Swartz, H. M., Vaupel, P., Williams, B. B., Schaner, P. E., Gallez, B., Schreiber, W., Ali, A., & Flood, A. B. (2020). ‘Oxygen Level in a Tissue’ - What Do Available Measurements Really Report? Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1232, 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34461-0_19 (Original work published 2020)