• The CT-Perfusion tool can be helpful in other applications where absolute quantification of the perfusion parameters is essential, providing a higher degree of diagnosis information for more informed decision making.
• The patient having a lung tumor got a pneumoectomy on the left side. The histopathology is an epitelial carcinoma.
• It is essential to visualise the blood volume and flow maps and understand the inhomogeneous distribution.

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Primary Perfusion-Scan Image	BV Blood Volume	BV Blood Flow

Images are courtesy of Dr. Pfleiderer, University Hospital of Jena (Germany)

CT parameters

• Scanner = Quad slices CT-LightSpeed
• Tube voltage = 100 kV
• Tube current = 150 mA
• Slice thickness = 10 mm
• Rotation speed = 1 sec.
• Scan time = 45 sec.
• Scan delay = 5 sec.
• Contrast agent = 300 mmol
• Contrast volume = 40 cc
• Flow rate = 4 cc/sec.
• Advantage Workstation 4.0

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