Functional lung imaging /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, FL :
Taylor & Francis,
2005.
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| Series: | Lung biology in health and disease ;
v. 200. |
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Table of Contents:
- Chest radiography, fluoroscopy, angiography, and pulmonary function testing
- Computed tomography : introduction to CT imaging
- CT ventilation imaging : technical background and impact in acute lung injury and ARDS management
- Imaging respiratory mechanics
- Pulmonary CT angiography
- Introduction to magnetic resonance imaging
- Noble gas ventilation imaging using ³He and ¹²⁹Xe : an introduction
- Dynamic imaging of the lung ventilation with hyperpolarized gas MRI
- Oxygen-enhanced ventilation imaging
- MR angiography and direct thrombus imaging for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
- Gadolinium-enhanced MR perfusion imaging
- Proton perfusion imaging
- Intravascular imaging using hyperpolarized nuclei
- Combined MR ventilation/perfusion imaging
- Assessment of human lung microstructure with hyperpolarized ³He diffusion MRI
- Regional oxygen balance
- PET imaging of infection and inflammatory lung disease
- Metabolic imaging for assessing solitary pulmonary nodules
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Asthma : assessment of lung ventilation with hyperpolarized helium-3 MR imaging
- The role of computed tomography in emphysema and lung volume reduction surgery
- Emphysema/Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Pulmonary embolism
- Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
- Sleep apnea
- Solitary pulmonary nodule
- Cystic fibrosis : radiologic considerations
- Lung transplantation