The evaluation of lung function with PET

DP Schuster - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 1998 - Elsevier
function, among others. A variety of radiotracers have been used to evaluate pulmonary blood
flow with PET… The progress to date in pulmonary PET imaging is certainly a product of that …

Quantification of lung PET images: challenges and opportunities

DL Chen, J Cheriyan, ER Chilvers… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2017 - Soc Nuclear Med
… molecular changes, noninvasive imaging techniques such as PET and SPECT have been …
-FDG PET imaging being the most studied. The quantification of pulmonary molecular imaging

Effects of lung motion and tracer kinetics corrections on PET imaging of pulmonary function

SM Mijailovich, S Treppo… - Journal of Applied …, 1997 - journals.physiology.org
… 12 Venegas JG, Treppo S., Mijailovich SMContributions of statistical noise to spatial
heterogeneity of PET images of pulmonary function.Medical Imaging 1994: Physiology and Function

[HTML][HTML] Advances in PET to assess pulmonary inflammation: a systematic review

L Vass, M Fisk, S Lee, FJ Wilson, J Cheriyan… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique which has the …
summarising the emerging PET radiotracers developed to quantify pulmonary inflammation. …

Correlation of 68Ga ventilation–perfusion PET/CT with pulmonary function test indices for assessing lung function

PY Le Roux, S Siva, DP Steinfort… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2015 - Soc Nuclear Med
… V/Q PET/CT imaging may provide new insights for lung function assessment. The aim of the
pulmonary function test indices with global lung functional volumes computed with V/Q PET/…

FDG-PET/CT in the prediction of pulmonary function improvement in nonspecific interstitial pneumonia. A Pilot Study

V Jacquelin, A Mekinian, PY Brillet, H Nunes… - European Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
… We decided to transpose the fibrosis score on the HRCT scan to the PET image to provide
a type of metabolic score of the lungs. The HRCT fibrotic score and its many variations were …

Visualizing lung function with positron emission tomography

RS Harris, DP Schuster - Journal of applied physiology, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
… -PET imaging could be used to study pulmonary inflammation in patients. More recently,
FDG-PET imaging … The imaging results were grouped according to the patients' rate of decline in …

PET imaging may provide a novel biomarker and understanding of right ventricular dysfunction in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

S Bokhari, A Raina, E Berman Rosenweig… - … Imaging, 2011 - Am Heart Assoc
… performed PET scanning in 16 patients with idiopathic PAH (age, 41±14 years, 82% women)
using 13 N-NH 3 for perfusion imaging and 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose for metabolic imaging. …

Diagnostic efficacy of PET-FDG imaging in solitary pulmonary nodules: potential role in evaluation and management

NA Dewan, NC Gupta, LS Redepenning, JJ Phalen… - Chest, 1993 - Elsevier
… with solitary pulmonary nodules up to 4 cm in size, we demonstrated that PET-FDG imaging
was … useful to assess the utility of PET-FDG imaging in differentiating benign from malignant …

FDG PET imaging for identifying pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure

A Ahmadi, H Ohira, LM Mielniczuk - Current cardiology reports, 2015 - Springer
… gated (18)F-FDG PET in patients with pulmonary hypertension: … FDG PET and cardiac MRI
and CT in measuring RV function … a reliable parameter for assessing RV volume and function. …