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It can also tell the difference
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between saturated and desaturated blood.
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What's saturated blood?
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Here, I mean blood that's saturated with oxygen,
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so it's loaded up with oxygen;
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desaturated blood is blood that's had the oxygen removed.
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Now, if you can measure blood flow
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and you can measure differences
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between saturated and desaturated blood,
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that means that you can monitor within a small region of tissue
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how much blood flow is going through,
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how much oxygen is being consumed.