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Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PET

Abstract

Nuclear medicine offers imaging methods to assess regional pulmonary blood flow as well as ventilation, gas and fluid transport across the alveolar-capillary membrane, mucociliary clearance, pulmonary aspiration, and parenchymal diseases.

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