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Title: | Improving pulmonary perfusion assessment by dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography in an experimental lung injury model |
Authors: | XIN, Yi; KIM, Taehwan; WINKLER, Tilo; BRIX, Gunnar; GAULTON, Timothy; GERARD, Sarah E.; HERRMANN, Jacob; MARTIN, Kevin T.; VICTOR, Marcus; REUTLINGER, Kristan; AMATO, Marcelo; BERRA, Lorenzo; KALRA, Mannudeep K.; CEREDA, Maurizio |
Citation: | JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY, v.134, n.6, p.1496-1507, 2023 |
Abstract: | Pulmonary perfusion has been poorly characterized in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Optimizing protocols to measure pulmonary blood flow (PBF) via dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) computed tomography (CT) could improve understanding of how ARDS alters pulmonary perfusion. In this study, comparative evaluations of injection protocols and tracer-kinetic analysis models were performed based on DCE-CT data measured in ventilated pigs with and without lung injury. Ten Yorkshire pigs (five with lung injury, five healthy) were anesthetized, intubated, and mechanically ventilated; lung injury was induced by bronchial hydrochloric acid instilla-tion. Each DCE-CT scan was obtained during a 30-s end-expiratory breath-hold. Reproducibility of PBF measurements was evaluated in three pigs. In eight pigs, undiluted and diluted Isovue-370 were separately injected to evaluate the effect of contrast viscosity on estimated PBF values. PBF was estimated with the peak-enhancement and the steepest-slope approach. Total-lung PBF was esti-mated in two healthy pigs to compare with cardiac output measured invasively by thermodilution in the pulmonary artery. Repeated measurements in the same animals yielded a good reproducibility of computed PBF maps. Injecting diluted isovue-370 resulted in smaller contrast-time curves in the pulmonary artery (P < 0.01) and vein (P < 0.01) without substantially diminishing peak signal inten-sity (P = 0.46 in the pulmonary artery) compared with the pure contrast agent since its viscosity is closer to that of blood. As com-pared with the peak-enhancement model, PBF values estimated by the steepest-slope model with diluted contrast were much closer to the cardiac output (R2= 0.82) as compared with the peak-enhancement model. DCE-CT using the steepest-slope model and diluted contrast agent provided reliable quantitative estimates of PBF.NEW & NOTEWORTHY Dynamic contrast-enhanced CT using a lower-viscosity contrast agent in combination with tracer-kinetic analysis by the steepest-slope model improves pulmonary blood flow measurements and assessment of regional distributions of lung perfusion. |
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