Abstract Ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) matching, the regional matching of the flow of fresh gas
to flow of deoxygenated capillary blood, is the most important mechanism affecting the …

Several methods allow regional gas exchange to be inferred from imaging of regional
ventilation and perfusion (V/Q) ratios. Each method measures slightly different aspects of …

Inhomogeneity in the lung impairs gas exchange and can be an early marker of lung
disease. We hypothesized that highly precise measurements of gas exchange contain …

The understanding of pulmonary gas exchange has undergone several major advances
since the early 1900‣ s. One of the most significant was the development of the multiple …

The multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET) was applied to blood-free perfused
isolated rabbit lungs. Commonly accepted criteria for reliability of the method were found to …

The analysis of the gas in a single expirate has long been used to estimate the degree of
ventilation-perfusion (V˙ a/Q˙) inequality in the lung. To further validate this estimate, we …

The multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET) is a robust tool to assess both
ventilation-perfusion (V'A/Q') distributions and the role of extrapulmonary factors determining …

Although measurement errors in the multiple inert gas elimination technique have a
coefficient of variation of approximately 3%, small biological fluctuations in ventilation, blood …

This brief review centers on the multiple inert gas elimination technique (MIGET). This
technique, developed in the 1970s, measures the pulmonary exchange of a set of six …

When using a new noninvasive method for measuring the efficiency of pulmonary gas
exchange, a key measurement is the oxygen deficit, defined as the difference between the …