… changes in lung density and volume between inflation levels are due solely to the influx of air
whilst regional tissue and blood volume … session and couch as PET, inherent discrepancies …

… found in the dependent lung regions while stable alveoli are … opening pressures in an animal
model of lung injury. Injury … 30 cmH 2 O and was then kept stable for 3 s (= deep inflation)…

… DXA-scan (participant 2) with manually drawn regions in the … In our study we demonstrated
that blood volume expelled … observed in a cardiac MRI animal study of cardiac arrest and as …

… study was to compare, in an animal model of recruitable lung … density between dependent
and nondependent regions in … , the lungs were fixed at a pressure that produces inflation to …

… by research utilizing high-resolution imaging in animal … Assessing regional pulmonary
perfusion presents distinct … /cm 3 , the average lung density is substantially lower, at approximately …

… the overall change in tidal volume for the whole lung after 2 … quantified distribution of regional
lung volumes to assess 180 … density distributions for the voxel-level values of the regional …

… Many animal studies described in detail such … of 15 cm H 2 O because under this condition
lung collapse was minimized… . Tidal hyperinflation during low tidal volume ventilation in acute …

… large animal studies demonstrated clear lung protective effects of … lessens heterogeneity of
regional lung strain and decreases … to contribute to regional hyperinflation with proning [40]. …

… , extravascular lung water, and intrathoracic blood volume … lung regions that are lately
ventilated during a slow inflation … Based on experiences with other animal model studies using …

… Actual lung inflation starts between the 1 s and 4 s images, … both Xe and tissue density, are
shown for each animal in Fig. … the fractal nature of regional lung ventilation distribution results …