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ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2015

Modeling of Tracer Transport Delays for Improved Quantification of Regional Pulmonary ¹⁸F-FDG Kinetics, Vascular Transit Times, and Perfusion.

Tyler J Wellman, Tilo Winkler, Marcos F Vidal Melo

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Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Tyler J WellmanDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Tilo WinklerDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Marcos F Vidal MeloDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. mvidalmelo@partners.org.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Regional Tidal Lung Strain and Neutrophilic Inflammation in Early Lung InjuryR01HL121228 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI VIDAL MELO, MARCOS F · 2014 to 2023
$6.2M
PET Imaging of Local Inflammation and Function in Ventilator Induced Lung InjuryR01HL086827 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI VIDAL MELO, MARCOS F · 2007 to 2011
$2.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL086827NHLBI NIH HHS R01-HL086827NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL121228NHLBI NIH HHS R01-HL121228
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Abstract

¹⁸F-FDG-PET is increasingly used to assess pulmonary inflammatory cell activity. However, current models of pulmonary ¹⁸F-FDG kinetics do not account for delays in ¹⁸F-FDG transport between the plasma sampling site and the lungs. We developed a three-compartment model of ¹⁸F-FDG kinetics that includes a delay between the right heart and the local capillary blood pool, and used this model to estimate regional pulmonary perfusion. We acquired dynamic ¹⁸F-FDG scans in 12 mechanically ventilated sheep divided into control and lung injury groups (n = 6 each). The model was fit to tracer kinetics in three isogravitational regions-of-interest to estimate regional lung transport delays and regional perfusion. ¹³NN bolus infusion scans were acquired during a period of apnea to measure regional perfusion using an established reference method. The delayed input function model improved description of ¹⁸F-FDG kinetics (lower Akaike Information Criterion) in 98% of studied regions. Local transport delays ranged from 2.0 to 13.6 s, averaging 6.4 ± 2.9 s, and were highest in non-dependent regions. Estimates of regional perfusion derived from model parameters were highly correlated with perfusion measurements based on ¹³NN-PET (R² = 0.92, p < 0.001). By incorporating local vascular transports delays, this model of pulmonary ¹⁸F-FDG kinetics allows for simultaneous assessment of regional lung perfusion, transit times, and inflammation.

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Models, BiologicalPulmonary CirculationAnimalsBiological TransportFluorodeoxyglucose F18Positron-Emission TomographySheepFluorodeoxyglucose F18Capillary transit timesPlasma input functionPositron emission tomographyTracer kinetics

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PMCPMC4618094
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