coltsfan715
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Hey I had this done when I was being evaluated for my transplant.
There were two parts to the test. You inhale a gas - I think for me it was Xenon. It is colorless and odorless and doesn't make you feel funny - or shouldn't at least. The let you inhale that and then take pictures of your lungs over a period of time. It is too see how the gas is absorbed and dispersed through your lungs. I think the gas makes your lungs appear red/white on the scan.
Then second part is an injection. They inject like a radioactive dye into a vein and take pictures again. This part of the test is to see the way that blood travels through and is dispersed through the lungs. It lights up the lungs on the scan in either red/white (the opposite of the gas portion). It is a bit interesting but also kind of freaky as a patient - well it was for me anyway with the gas portion because you have to hold a mask on your face (around your nose and mouth) for a period of time and I was a bit claustrophobic. I did this while on O2 though, so not sure why he has to be on O2. They actually gave me O2 through the mask with the gas.
It is a radioactive imaging test so you don't have to deal with Xrays and such. Basically the machine they use to take the images can pick up the radioactive image through the body it is really neat honestly.
I hope that it goes well for him.
I will be keeping you all in my thoughts.
Love Linds
Also I wrote about this test when I had it done back in February if you check my blog I may have more information about it there. I didn't check before writing this. It would be in February 2007 <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">.
There were two parts to the test. You inhale a gas - I think for me it was Xenon. It is colorless and odorless and doesn't make you feel funny - or shouldn't at least. The let you inhale that and then take pictures of your lungs over a period of time. It is too see how the gas is absorbed and dispersed through your lungs. I think the gas makes your lungs appear red/white on the scan.
Then second part is an injection. They inject like a radioactive dye into a vein and take pictures again. This part of the test is to see the way that blood travels through and is dispersed through the lungs. It lights up the lungs on the scan in either red/white (the opposite of the gas portion). It is a bit interesting but also kind of freaky as a patient - well it was for me anyway with the gas portion because you have to hold a mask on your face (around your nose and mouth) for a period of time and I was a bit claustrophobic. I did this while on O2 though, so not sure why he has to be on O2. They actually gave me O2 through the mask with the gas.
It is a radioactive imaging test so you don't have to deal with Xrays and such. Basically the machine they use to take the images can pick up the radioactive image through the body it is really neat honestly.
I hope that it goes well for him.
I will be keeping you all in my thoughts.
Love Linds
Also I wrote about this test when I had it done back in February if you check my blog I may have more information about it there. I didn't check before writing this. It would be in February 2007 <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">.