and ventilation and gas exchange function; high resolution structural MRI to visualise the lung macrostructure; and dynamic contrast enhanced MRI to assess lung perfusion. These methods can be applied ...
Lung ventilation and perfusion scintigraphy is mentioned only as an aside, and the authors say that multidetector computed tomography has taken over as the gold standard imaging method.
was admitted in your ICU 2 d ago with a diagnosis of acute lung injury secondary to a viral pneumonia. He failed a trial of noninvasive mechanical ventilation and has been intubated 12 hr ago.