Physiological conditions and pathophysiological changes in the lungs may affect many
applications in aerosol medicine and pulmonary drug delivery. In the diseased lung, spatial …

18F-FDG positron emission tomographic (PET) scanning is a major imaging tool widely
used to investigate lung function and lung disease. Tomographic imaging of drug delivered …

Imaging techniques have been used extensively to study the delivery of inhaled
medications. Deposition scintigraphy involves the quantification of deposited aerosol dose …

Conventional two-dimensional and three-dimensional single photon emission computed
tomography and positron emission tomography imaging tools and specific inhaled …

THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE Journal of Aerosol Medicine contains articles devoted to
gamma camera imaging. The gamma camera has proved invaluable in the advancement of …

Positron emission tomography (PET) provides three-dimensional images of the distributions
of radionuclides that have been inhaled or injected into the lungs. By using radionuclides …

The topical distribution of inhaled therapies in the lung can be viewed using radionuclides
and imaging. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a three-dimensional functional imaging …

Three-dimensional (3-D) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of inhaled
radiolabeled aerosol in the nasal or pulmonary regions provides an in vivo measurement of …

This review will cover the principles of imaging the deposition of inhaled drugs and some of
the state-of-the art imaging techniques being used today. Aerosol deposition can be imaged …

Regional pulmonary perfusion and ventilation can be assessed by imaging, with positron
emission tomography (PET), the pulmonary kinetics of [13N] nitrogen (13N2). Because of its …