… positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to investigate … factors—ventral hyperinflation
and dorsal low-volume injury—… After normalization by density (lung tissue; C), such increase …

… Methods: We used PET/CT to assess regional pulmonary … not density-normalized, since in
this model any increase in … (hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction) or from local hyperinflation of …

… However, assuming that regional blood or plasma volume … lumen of the pulmonary artery
catheter after balloon inflation and "… portion of lung (dog experiments) as indicated by density …

… volume-controlled mode with a squared inflation flow (Cesar … and from lung density analysis
of the transmission scan (Va … regional lung ventilation during 13 NN 2 washout using PET. …

… horizontal dog the effect of gravity acting directly on the lung is … Assuming that shifts of
intrapulmonary blood volume are … that at high inflation pressures, where the lung parenchyma is …

… of lung regions that have been documented in zone 2 … explained by either gravity or regional
differences in lung inflation (11). … differences in alveolar density and size (6). When capillary …

… regional transpulmonary pressures and lung volumes by … point on the inflation limb of the
static pressure-volume (PV) … As shown for a representative animal in Figure 2, no significant …

… calculation of global capillary blood volume and mean transit … capacity, normal lung density
of a supine or prone dog ranges from ∼… inflation is more uniform in the prone posture. Fig. 4. …

… study was to compare EIT with PET after changing lung … Lung volume measured with PET
from density obtained on … the two studies, the values of R 2 were lower in our study. Indeed, the …

… In all three lung-injured animal groups, linear regression … open lung approach may lead to
hyperinflation of the baby lung… the volume of hyperinflated lung regions during the open lung …