Pulmonary fat embolism occurs frequently after trauma but its functional significance is often
unclear. To obtain direct evidence of lung damage caused by fat embolism we have …

Continuous infusion of 15 O-labeled water allows a quantitative measurement of the total
water pool in the chest region by positron emission tomography (PET). By subsequent …

To test the hypothesis that analysis of lung thallium uptake measured during single photon
emission computed tomography (SPECT) yields supplementary clinical information as …

Millions of people are affected by respiratory diseases, leading to a significant health burden
globally. Because of the current insufficient knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that …

In prone anesthetized rabbits, we used Evans blue-dyed albumin (EBA) to study regional
pleural filtration and FITC dextran to study regional pleural absorption. Evans blue was …

Pulmonary edema is a serious complication of heart failure, but often patients with chronic
heart failure resist pulmonary edema despite elevated pulmonary venous pressures. This …

PET with 18F-FDG may be useful for quantifying neutrophilic activation. We previously
demonstrated that pulmonary neutrophil sequestration could be detected during acute lung …

Noninvasive techniques employing external counting of radiolabeled protein have the
potential for measuring pulmonary vascular protein permeability, but their specificity and …

We have measured with positron emission tomography (PET) the regional distribution of
extravascular lung water (EVLW) and hematocrit (HctL) in normal supine dogs. H2 (15) O …

Microsphere technique is the reference for assessment of pulmonary blood flow (PBF) but is
destructive; PET, however, can determine PBF noninvasively. Comparisons of these 2 …