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 …

Positron emission tomography (PET) has been in existence and continuously developing
over the past 20 years. In the last few years steady advances in the technology used for PET …

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

REvEwNG THE PUBLICATIoNs of past few ycars on nuclear pulmonology, we notice that
many of them are about lung tumors and pulmonary circulation abnormality, followed by …

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a computer based, nuclear medicine imaging
technique that permits the quantitative, in vivo measurement of local tissue concentration or …

Ventilation/perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (V/Q SPECT) is the
scintigraphic technique of choice for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and many other …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion in imaging technology applicable to chest
medicine. These include CT and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) for the diagnosis …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the use of positron emission tomography (PET)
in clinical practice. PET is an advanced diagnostic imaging technique, which can not only …

Ongoing technologic and therapeutic advancements in medicine are now testing the limits of
conventional anatomic imaging techniques. The ability to image physiology, rather than …