E-Cigarette Aerosol Deposition and Disposition of [¹¹C]Nicotine Using Positron Emission Tomography: A Comparison of Nicotine Uptake in Lungs and Brain Using Two Different Nicotine Formulations

• Main Authors: Anders Wall (Author), Sara Roslin (Author), Beatrice Borg (Author), Simon McDermott (Author), Tanvir Walele (Author), Thomas Nahde (Author), Grant O'Connell (Author), Joseph Thompson (Author), Mark Lubberink (Author), Gunnar Antoni (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Smoking is a cause of serious disease in smokers. Electronic cigarettes, delivering aerosolized nicotine, offer adult smokers a potentially less harmful alternative to combustible cigarettes. This explorative PET/CT study investigated the distribution and deposition of inhaled [<sup>11</sup...