Pulmonary arterial remodeling revealed by microfocal x-ray tomography

Kelly L. Karau; Robert C. Molthen; Roger H. Johnson; Anita H. Dhyani; Steven T. Haworth; Christopher A. Dawson

doi:10.1117/12.428147

21 May 2001 Pulmonary arterial remodeling revealed by microfocal x-ray tomography

Kelly L. Karau, Robert C. Molthen, Roger H. Johnson, Anita H. Dhyani, Steven T. Haworth, Christopher A. Dawson

Proceedings Volume 4321, Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.428147
Event: Medical Imaging 2001, 2001, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Animal models and micro-CT imaging are useful for understanding the functional consequences of, and identifying the genes involved in, the remodeling of vascular structures that accompanies pulmonary vascular disease. Using a micro-CT scanner to image contrast-enhanced arteries in excised lungs from fawn hooded rats (a strain genetically susceptible to hypoxia induced pulmonary hypertension), we found that portions of the pulmonary arterial tree downstream from a given diameter were morphometrically indistinguishable. This 'self-consistency' property provided a means for summarizing the pulmonary arterial tree architecture and mechanical properties using a parameter vector obtained from measurements of the contiguous set of vessel segments comprising the longest (principal) pathway and its branches over a range of vascular pressures. This parameter vector was used to characterize the pulmonary vascular remodeling that occurred in rats exposed to a hypoxic (11.5% oxygen) environment and provided the input to a hemodynamic model relating structure to function. The major effect of the remodeling was a longitudinally (pulmonary artery to arterioles) uniform decrease in vessel distensibility that resulted in a 90% increase in arterial resistance. Despite the almost uniform change in vessel distensibility, over 50% of the resistance increase was attributable to vessels with unstressed diameters less than 125 microns.

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Kelly L. Karau, Robert C. Molthen, Roger H. Johnson, Anita H. Dhyani, Steven T. Haworth, and Christopher A. Dawson "Pulmonary arterial remodeling revealed by microfocal x-ray tomography", Proc. SPIE 4321, Medical Imaging 2001: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images, (21 May 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.428147

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