… Knudsen regarding the similarities between our model for pulmonary clearance of dusts
and the traditional Michaelis-Menten model for enzyme kinetics. Received 27 June 1996; …

… pulmonary sequestration of activated neutrophils, despite the absence of alveolar neutrophilia.
Thus [ 18 F]FDG-PET imaging may be a useful tool to study neutrophil kinetics during ALI. …

… In the study of a general case, the significance of shunt can be determined from a variety of
sources, such as visual inspection of the arterial or pulmonary tracer kinetics, pulse oximetry, …

… Tracer kinetic modeling in dynamic PET has the … pulmonary arteries can also be used for
kinetic modeling of individual lungs (Supplemental Table 1). However, use of the pulmonary …

… PET with tracer kinetic modeling has been found promising for detection and characterization
of lung diseases including lung cancer and pulmonary fibrosis. Existing kinetic modeling …

… the right heart and part of the pulmonary system; the second pool can … pulmonary system;
the third pool can be considered mainly as the tissue vascular and interstitial space. The tracer …

… In the present study, we have evaluated plasma kinetics and biodistribution of exogenously
administered AM in rats as well as plasma and tissue levels of endogenous AM. We …

… for alveolar gas-pulmonary blood equilibration (Dco_, pulmonary diffusing capacity for CO2).
… that the overall limitation of pulmonary CO 2 exchange function resulting from this finite Dco …

… kinetics in the intact organ within the few seconds of a single pulmonary transit time. … The
recoveries of these two vascular tracers after a single pulmonary transit (evaluated as areas …

… tracer kinetics effects was conducted on a voxel-by-voxel basis by assessing the differences
in tracer … the activity level expected at the time of the tracer’s arrival to the alveoli (17). The …