"Technegas as a SPECT ventilation agent has a key advantage as it remains fixed after inhalation, which allows imaging of upright ventilation distribution, analogous of pulmonary function tests."

"V/Q SPECT, using Technegas as the ventilation imaging agent, could diagnose and grade severity of COPD and also estimate preserved lung function in 94 patients. Moreover, V/Q SPECT appears to be a unique tool to reveal the heterogeneity of COPD caused by pulmonary comorbidities such as pulmonary embolism, left heart failure, lung tumor and pneumonia."

"An advantage of using Technegas as the ventilation agent and radiolabelled macro-aggregated albumin microspheres as the perfusion agent is that the deposition pattern is fixed upon administration and thus different patient postures can be studied and the effect of gravity and position determined, even though the scans must be acquired with the subject supine using conventional gamma camera SPECT/CT systems"

"Technetium-99m (99mTc-Technegas) is widely available and relatively inexpensive while Xenon-133 is less than ideal for SPECT imaging owing to its relatively low energy and suboptimal spatial resolution."

"However, the standard technique for V/Q SPECT in the US involves the use of Xenon radiotracer rather than Technegas rendering direct comparison of equivocal rates less useful."

"The optimal tracer for ventilation studies is Technegas, an ultra fine dispersion of 99mTc-labeled carbon. [...] Its main advantage is greater percentage deposition in the alveolar spaces and less undesirable adherence to the central airways, compared with droplet radioaerosols."

"The best option for ventilation evaluation is aerosolized ultrafine 99mTc-labeled impregnated carbon particles (Technegas, Cyclopharm, Australia)."

"Ventilation SPECT imaging with Technegas was used as an estimation of regional ventilation [in asthma patients]."

"The introduction of the tomographic technique and the implementation of Technegas as a novel ventilation agent facilitated imaging of pulmonary embolism in comparison with planar imaging and particularly in COPD patients together with the new interpretation criteria."

"Although not as available as chest X-ray, V/P SPECT is a feasible alternative, especially because the introduction of SPECT and new ventilation tracers (i.e. Technegas) has lowered the number of non-diagnostic studies to <3%, even in the presence of obstructive lung disease."