… the lung in terms of atelectatic fractions ( 30 ) and density … lung in both the uninjured
animal ( 23 , 32 ) and that with … pulmonary blood volume away from well-ventilated regions …

… by lung densities) was markedly lower at high Fio 2 and low … by hypoxic pulmonary
vasoconstriction in animal models has … decrease in some studies 13,41,42 and no additional …

… due to a change in local transpulmonary pressure 2 . Alveolar compliance itself … change
in transpulmonary pressure that every alveolus in each region experiences during lung inflation…

… (d,e) The value changes of the average lung density (d) and … No apparent alveolar
hyperinflation was observed in the … regional lung expansion. CT data cover the entire area of the …

… , regions of interests are drawn around both lungs in anterior … PET/CT also displays some
drug-related pulmonary changes… , the extent of emphysematous hyperinflation can be reduced …

… provide spatial information about regional lung dysfunction (1)… has also been demonstrated
through animal studies (13, 14). … values of the lung tissues varied with the lung inflation level, …

… CT scan slices in one animal with right lung injury and one … Lung density (Table E1) was
increased in the injured lung … the best compromise between collapse and hyperinflation. …

… regions away from which blood volume was redistributed. Naum et al 90 performed PET (H
2 … in anesthetized dogs was studied by inducing pulmonary edema through the inflation of a …

… the level of blood circulation in the lungs in animal experiments. … pixel value changes in the
lung regions and periodic pixel value … hyperinflation, whereas an increase in weight without …

… in each of the six lung lobes of each animal. To adjust the model for the within-… of lung
density from the ventral to the dorsal regions among groups. P value of the treatment effect by a 2-…