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International Journal of Molecular Imaging
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 356730, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/356730
Research Article

FDG-PET Quantification of Lung Inflammation with Image-Derived Blood Input Function in Mice

Landon W. Locke,1 Mark B. Williams,1,2,3 Karen D. Fairchild,4 Min Zhong,2 Bijoy K. Kundu,3 and Stuart S. Berr1,3

1Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
2Department of Physics, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
3Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, The University of VA, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
4Department of Pediatrics, The University of VA, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA

Received 17 June 2011; Revised 14 September 2011; Accepted 17 September 2011

Academic Editor: Adriaan Anthonius Lammertsma

Copyright © 2011 Landon W. Locke et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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