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The most common technique for in vivo determination of extra-vascular lung water is the double-indicator dilution method based on the fact that one indicator remains intravascular, whilst the other diffuses from the capillary system.
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Pfeiffer, U., Birk, M., Aschenbrenner, G., Blümel, G. (1982). The System for Quantitating Thermal-Dye Extravascular Lung Water. In: Prakash, O., Spence, A.A., Payne, J.P., Jonson, B., Nair, S. (eds) Computers in Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6704-2_26
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