Computed tomography was used before and during inhalation of nonradioactive xenon gas to measure and map local cerebral blood flow noninvasively at two PaCO2 levels in a 19-year-old accident victim. The technique demonstrated normal response to elevated PaCO2 with only a regional loss of autoregulation.
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Yonas et al. (1984) studied this question.