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J Appl Physiol 66: 844-850, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 66, Issue 2 844-850, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Regional pulmonary transit times in humans

W. MacNee, B. A. Martin, B. R. Wiggs, A. S. Belzberg and J. C. Hogg
University of British Columbia, Department of Nuclear Medicine, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.

We measured the frequency distribution of erythrocyte (RBC) transit times in resected lobes of lungs in eight human subjects undergoing thoracotomy for peripheral lung tumors. RBC transit times were measured by the injection of radiolabeled blood flow and volume markers, which were counted in samples from the resected lung. In five of these subjects, the measurements from the resected lung were compared with preoperative measurements of the transit times of radiolabeled RBCs with a gamma camera-computer system. Time-activity curves from the cardiac chambers and the lung or its regions were obtained from which transit times were calculated by the centroid and deconvolution techniques. The reproducibility of transit times measured by this technique was assessed in another eight normal subjects, after sequential bolus injections of radiolabeled cells. The mean transit time of the upper lung region was longer (5.1 +/- 0.5 s) than that of the lower (4.1 +/- 0.6 s, P less than 0.05) in the preoperative study. Similarly, the mean transit time of the upper lung slice was longer (5.5 +/- 0.3 s) than that of the lower slice (3.8 +/- 0.3 s, P less than 0.05) in the resected lung specimens. We conclude that there was good agreement between these techniques and that there are long transit times in the upper regions of human lungs.


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