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

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Treves, S.T., Packard, A.B. (1995). Lungs. In: Treves, S.T. (eds) Pediatric Nuclear Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4205-3_11

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