22 Assessment of Pulmonary Function by PET

DP Schuster - Positron Emission Tomography: Basic Sciences, 2004 - books.google.com
Pulmonary PET imaging is still immature relative to developments and experience in other …
by the academic pulmonary community. These problems are likely to persist until PET is used …

Correlation of 68Ga ventilation–perfusion PET/CT with pulmonary function test indices for assessing lung function

PY Le Roux, S Siva, DP Steinfort… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
pulmonary function test indices with global lung functional volumes computed with V/Q PET/…
Of the 22 patients demonstrating less than 90% of lung volume with normal ventilation and …

[HTML][HTML] Severity of pulmonary involvement and 18F-FDG PET activity in sarcoidosis

RLM Mostard, JA Verschakelen… - Respiratory …, 2013 - Elsevier
22 (85%) had positive pulmonary PET findings, of whom 18/22 (82%) showed extrathoracic
PET… a relationship between impaired lung function and pulmonary PET-positivity. This is in …

Gallium-68 perfusion positron emission tomography/computed tomography to assess pulmonary function in lung cancer patients undergoing surgery

PY Le Roux, TL Leong, SA Barnett, RJ Hicks… - Cancer Imaging, 2016 - Springer
… In the present study, the limits of agreement between PPO values of lung function predicted
from Q PET/… In our series of 22 patients, 3 would have had a different management using Q …

Assessment of myocardial perfusion and function with PET and PET/CT

MH Al-Mallah, A Sitek, SC Moore, M Di Carli… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2010 - Elsevier
… hybrid PET MPI applications. 3, 4, 5, 6 The focus of this article is to discuss the evolution of
PET MPI over the course of the years to highlight some of the major achievements in PET that …

Diagnostic efficacy of PET-FDG imaging in solitary pulmonary nodules: potential role in evaluation and management

NA Dewan, NC Gupta, LS Redepenning, JJ Phalen… - Chest, 1993 - Elsevier
… on PET imaging studies in patients with aspergilloma, lung22 However, not all granulomas
in our study showed … , either due to poor lung function or associated cardiovascular disease. …

18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of Pulmonary Functions, Pathology, and Drug Delivery

MB Dolovich - Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2009 - atsjournals.org
… of the technical aspects of delivering PET tracers to the human lung, the acquisition and …
link imaging outcomes with clinical measurements of lung function. Some of the results of these …

Expiratory CT scans for chronic airway disease: correlation with pulmonary function test results.

O Lucidarme, E Coche, P Cluzel… - … American journal of …, 1998 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
… suspected chronic airway disease even when PETs are normal. … lung area that appears
to be better correlated … with all pulmonary function tests except total lung capacity, …

Visualizing lung function with positron emission tomography

RS Harris, DP Schuster - Journal of applied physiology, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
… links between cellular function and whole lung function in vivo. In this paper, recent
advancements in PET methodology and techniques and information about lung function that have …

Effects of lung motion and tracer kinetics corrections on PET imaging of pulmonary function

SM Mijailovich, S Treppo… - Journal of Applied …, 1997 - journals.physiology.org
… local lung function has been assessed by positron emission tomography (PET), from the …
Local alveolar gas volume (Va) and specific ventilation (sVa) have been assessed with PET