These animals were used to evaluate the linearity and repro ducibilityofLWC
measurementsand their correlationwith gravi metric data. RepeatPET …

From the first measurements of the distribution of pulmonary blood flow using radioactive
tracers by West and colleagues (J Clin Invest 40: 1–12, 1961) allowing gravitational …

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

We have measured regional pulmonary blood flow (PBF) in normal dogs with positron
emission tomography (PET) and 15O-labeled water (H2 (15) O). The method is …

Gallium-68 (68 Ga) is a positron-emitting radionuclide suitable for positron emission
tomography (PET) imaging that has a number of convenient features—it has a physical half …

A new quantitative method, †œSimultaneousExponential Equation method―(SEE), has
been developed for the analysis of pulmonary ventilation studies using 13N-labeled …

Using techniques of mathematical simulation, we compared two methods of evaluating
pulmonary vascular permeability, ie, transvascular protein flux. Both methods calculate a …

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 …

A new method has recently been developed to quantify pulmonary beta-adrenergic
receptors in vivo using PET. This study used in vitro radioligand binding assay (RLBA) as …

121 ±32 mVminhlOOml lung, andwas 57 ±33 mtfmin/100ml lung in the patients with
cardiomyopathy. The correlation be tweenPBFmeasuredw@ i150 …