… shown to predict whole-lung gas exchange in health and disease. This study aims to present
a PET-based method to estimate regional alveolar ventilation-to-perfusion ratios (V̇ A /Q̇…

… map of the regional ventilation and perfusion in the lungs may be relevant in many other
clinical situations, including preoperative assessment of the lung cancer patients, radiotherapy …

… switch from lung ventilation SPECT to PET/CT is to maintain the physical properties of
aerosolized carbon nanoparticles to ensure similar alveolar deposition and stability in the lungs. …

… ventilation (V) and perfusion (Q) PET scans assessing V/Q quotients in patients with various
lung pathologies, as well as the influence of patient position on regional perfusion patterns. …

… PET, we studied an additional animal in a multiring PET camera that imaged 10 contiguous
slices of 1-cm thickness. The data covering >70% of the lung … the CV 2 of the lung as a whole. …

… PET. Ga has recently been investigated as a radiotracer for ventilation and perfusion (V/Q)
lung … It is relatively easy to produce both V/Q radiopharmaceuticals labeled with 68 Ga for PET …

… PET) and intravenously injected 13 N 2 , we assessed the topographical distribution of pulmonary
perfusion (Q) and ventilation … alveolar V(sVa, ventilation per unit of alveolar gas volume…

… ventilation–perfusion (V/Q) PET/CT with PFT indices. Methods: Thirty patients underwent V/Q
PET/… normal ventilated and perfused (%NVQ), unmatched and matched defects by the total …

… (PET) to the study of regional lung gas … lungs. Rhodes and coworkers (1, 2) used a constant
rate intravenous infusion of 13 N 2 and PET to estimate regional ventilation–perfusion ratio …

… optimisation to functional lung volumes using state-of-the-art gated V/Q-PET/CT acquisition
… (4D) V/Q PET/CT. The primary hypothesis is that dose to functional regions of the lung can be …