… In the control experiment, lung inflation was associated with a proportional decrease in …
pulmonary blood volume, as our results indicate no change in regional pulmonary blood volume. …

… of the PET data for any changes in regional inflation. With the … part of pulmonary blood flow
measurements with PET (12). … correlating regional blood flow, blood volume, and lung water …

… detect and quantify this regional inflammatory response with … PET scans to increase the
radioactivity count density within … in the degree of inflation of the lungs, which can alter the …

… measurable changes in K i and regional lung function within 2 h of … and illustrates that mean
lung density, unlike 18 F-FDG … expected by a mere change in regional inflation. Finally, F tis …

… of both lung volume and regional lung density, which is very … increase in P a O 2 is similar
to that seen in other animal … to the lung overall, and there was a preferential inflation of the …

… quantification of aerated lung volume from either density analysis on transmission scans […
inflation [19]. Third, although the present study examined the correlation between PET regional …

… In summary, the gas volume of a specific lung region of … of the lung densities, from the most
dependent lung regions (the para-… parenchyma caused by tidal inflation. At variance with the …

… blood volume (87%) and less to increased lung … of regional air content or even alveolar
hyperinflation. Further support for this explanation is provided by an animal study comparing lung …

… In the present study we reanalyzed previously reported PET … , k, is normalized to regional
blood volume (ml blood/ml lung), … k, for differences in regional lung inflation. Advances in …

… the recommendations for laboratory animal research of the … by the presence of more damaged
lung regions. However, this … in the absence of lung and blood volume change (41, 47, 49)…