Perfusion is the passage of fluid through the lymphatic system or blood vessels to an organ or a tissue. The practice of perfusion scanning is the process...

A ventilation/perfusion lung scan, also called a V/Q lung scan, or ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy, is a type of medical imaging using scintigraphy...

Perfusion MRI or perfusion-weighted imaging (PWI) is perfusion scanning by the use of a particular MRI sequence[which?]. The acquired data are then post-processed...

Myocardial perfusion imaging or scanning (also referred to as MPI or MPS) is a nuclear medicine procedure that illustrates the function of the heart muscle...

ventilation/perfusion scan (V/Q scan). Using a small amount of inhaled or injected radioactive material called a tracer for visualization, a V/Q scan is a type...

scanning, and identifies more emboli (without necessarily improving the outcome) compared to VQ scanning. A ventilation/perfusion scan (or V/Q scan or...

Perfusion CT or CT Perfusion is a type of perfusion scanning using computed tomography. It is helpful in the evaluation of the vascularity of tissue in...

respiratory failure due to MMPH has been reported. In one study ventilation-perfusion scans were abnormal in 34 of 35 LAM patients. The most common abnormality...

Ventilation–perfusion coupling is the relationship between ventilation and perfusion in the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Ventilation is the...

brain, where CT perfusion imaging can often detect poor brain perfusion well before it is detected using a conventional spiral CT scan. This is better...

respiratory system, ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch refers to the pathological discrepancy between ventilation (V) and perfusion (Q) resulting in an abnormal...

been used, although this more correctly is referred to as isotope perfusion scanning. The technique was first developed in 1927 by the Portuguese physician...

studies of dementia. 99mTc-exametazime SPECT scanning competes with fludeoxyglucose (FDG) PET scanning of the brain, which works to assess regional brain...

contrast (DSC) MR perfusion". Radiopaedia. Retrieved 2017-10-14. Chen F, Ni YC (March 2012). "Magnetic resonance diffusion-perfusion mismatch in acute...

ventilation and perfusion (V/Q) scan. The nuclear medicine V/Q scan is useful in the evaluation of pulmonary embolism. Thyroid scan with iodine-123 for...

scintigraphy is to diagnose pulmonary embolism, e.g. with a ventilation/perfusion scan and may be appropriate for excluding PE in pregnancy. Less common indications...

reduced capacity of the blood to carry oxygen, compromised general or local perfusion, or inability of the affected tissues to extract oxygen from, or metabolically...

scanning. If heart disease and lung disease have been excluded, a ventilation/perfusion scan is performed to rule out CTEPH. If unmatched perfusion defects...

considered only when there are no serious comorbidites. A CT scan or a ventilation/perfusion scan may be useful to evaluate cases for surgical interventions...

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Other ligands include sestamibi for myocardial perfusion imaging and mercapto acetyl triglycine for MAG3 scan to measure renal function. In 1970, Eckelman...

lower, and the scans take longer to acquire. However, this method allows a low-cost on-site solution to institutions with low PET scanning demand. An alternative...

CTEPH, which is a rare but serious complication of VTE. Ventilation-perfusion scanning and echocardiography are the initial diagnostic tests for CTEPH, and...

Usually fasting is not required for scanning purpose and patients can have light breakfast in the morning of the scan day. The technetium-99m DMSA binds...

agent for myocardial perfusion scan Adenoscan (adenosine injection) – Pharmacologic stress agent for myocardial perfusion scan AmBisome (amphotericin...

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging perfusion (cardiac MRI perfusion, CMRI perfusion), also known as stress CMR perfusion, is a clinical magnetic resonance...

and American neuroradiologist (brain-imaging expert) who pioneered perfusion scanning of the brain. Wintermark is currently a Professor and the Chair of...

occlusion. With perfusion MRI detecting both the infarcted core and the salvageable penumbra, the latter can be quantified by DWI and perfusion MRI. DWI showing...

radiation include X-rays, CT scans, mammography, lung ventilation and perfusion scans, bone scans, cardiac perfusion scan, angiography, radiation therapy...

was introduced in the 1990s as an alternative to ventilation/perfusion scanning (V/Q scan), which relies on radionuclide imaging of the blood vessels of...