Sentence examples for lung functional from inspiring English sources
Although somatic growth and the development of some lung functional parameters lag in former BPD infants, the lung function of such infants appears to develop in line with that of non-BPD infants when a body weight correction is applied.
We report on the first clinical implementation and patient treatment of lung functional image-guided radiotherapy using an emerging technology, computed tomography (CT) ventilation imaging.
Accordingly, a visually adapted semi-automatic method is favored, enabling rapid and quantitative delineation of lung functional volumes with 68Ga-V/Q PET/CT.
Multiple lung functional parameters recorded by flow-ventilated whole-body plethysmography demonstrated that high-dose CNP-18 treatment had a significant radioprotective effect on lethal dose radiation-induced lung injury.
Similar to the inter- and intra-observer agreement evaluation in CT segmentation, we computed the variance between the entire lung functional volume in both healthy and pathological lungs in order to determine inter- and intra-observer agreements.
Using an automatic method of delineation consisting in applying the same threshold for all patients is therefore inaccurate and inappropriate for the determination of lung functional volumes with 68Ga-V/Q PET/CT.
We have not examined long-term implications with regards to changes in lung function and functional status.
Pulmonary fibrosis (PF), the progressive destruction of functional lung parenchyma and its conversion to scar tissue, can lead to severe decline in lung function, dyspnoea and death [ 1- 3].
Pulmonary function tests (vital capacity, forced expiratory volume in 1 second, total lung capacity, functional residual capacity), arterial blood gases, and chest radiographs were done preoperatively and postoperatively.
Cumulative cannabis use was associated with higher forced vital capacity, total lung capacity, functional residual capacity and residual volume.
Our purpose was to examine transpulmonary pressure (PTP) and end-expiratory lung volume (functional residual capacity (FRC)) during body positioning changes in an animal model under the influence of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) or experimental pleural effusion (PLEF).
