"Automated assessment of functional lung imaging with sup 68 /sup Ga-v" by Lachlan McIntosh, Price Jackson et al.
Abstract Purpose: Functional lung mapping from Ga -ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) PET/CT, which has been shown to correlate with pulmonary function tests (PFTs), may be beneficial in a number of clinical applications where sparing regions of high lung function is of interest. Regions of clumping in the proximal airways in patients with airways disease can result in areas of focal intense activity and artefact in ventilation imaging. These artefacts may even shine through to subsequent perfusion images and create a challenge for quantitative analysis of PET imaging. We aimed to develop an automat...
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