PMID: 6976359Dec 1, 1981Paper

Quantitative measurement of regional extravascular lung density using positron emission and transmission tomography

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
C G RhodesT Jones

Abstract

A technique has been developed to measure regional values of vascular and extravascular lung density using positron emission and transmission tomography. Quantitative values of lung density in a transaxial plane are obtained by recording transmission scans during the exposure of a ring source of positron emitting germanium/gallium-68, which encircles the subject in the plane of the scan. Values of blood density are obtained by scanning in the emission mode following the labeling of the subject's red blood cells with a quantity of C-carbon monoxide inhaled as a bolus. Subtraction of the normalised blood volume scan from the normalised lung density (transmission) scan provides regional values of extravascular lung density. The response of the transmission scan to changes in density was obtained by scanning different tissue equivalent materials in the density range 0.02 to 1.0 g cm-3. This resulted in a linear relationship between pixel counts and density. Density measurements made in vitro on simulated chest phantoms suggest that, at worst, random errors of 3.5% and systematic errors (due to the influence of the chest wall) of between 10 and 15% will be incurred when measurements are made in vivo on lungs of average normal densit...Continue Reading

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