Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects an estimated 1.7 million people in the United States and
is a contributing factor to one third of all injury related deaths annually. According to the …

Millions of people are affected by respiratory diseases, leading to a significant health burden
globally. Because of the current insufficient knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that …

Tracer kinetic modeling in dynamic PET has the potential to improve the diagnosis,
prognosis, and research of lung diseases. The advent of total-body PET systems with much …

Purpose There is a lack of prognostic biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
patients. The objective of this study is to investigate the potential of 18 F-FDG-PET/CT to …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this review is to describe the current experimental and clinical
data regarding the fundamentals and applications of 18F-FDG PET during acute lung injury …

Conventional whole-body static 18F-FDG PET imaging provides a semiquantitative
evaluation of overall glucose metabolism without insight into the specific transport and …

Background Alveolar overdistension and repetitive derecruitment-recruitment contribute to
ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). The authors investigated (1) whether inflammatory cell …

Rationale: Although infection contributes to morbidity in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), the
host inflammatory response is also an important cause of progressive pulmonary function …

The past decade has seen increased application of 18-flurodeoxyglucose positron emission
tomography (18FDG-PET) imaging to help diagnose and monitor disease, particularly in …

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is associated with a metabolic shift towards glycolysis in both
the right ventricle and lung. This results in increased glucose uptake to compensate for the …