Methods of displaying ventilation distribution and related systems and devices

A system for displaying a ventilation distribution of a patient comprising:

• a measuring system for measuring the ventilation distribution of the patient;
• a display device;
• a controller operably coupled to the measuring system and the display device, the controller comprising:
• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
• cause the measuring system to measure the ventilation distribution of the patient during a time interval, the ventilation distribution comprising a left-to-right ventilation distribution along a left-to-right axis in a plane perpendicular to the cranial caudal axis and an anterior-to-posterior ventilation distribution along an axis perpendicular to the left-to-right axis and in the plane perpendicular to the cranial caudal axis;
• and
• plot an element representing the measured ventilation distribution of the patient within a Cartesian coordinate system of a graphical user interface of the display device, wherein the element is plotted with a higher intensity relative to other elements representing previously measured ventilation distributions of the patient, and wherein a visual intensity of the other elements representing previously measured ventilation distributions of the patient is adjusted.

A system for displaying a ventilation distribution of a patient comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to repeatedly:
• receive a ventilation distribution of the patient during a time interval, the ventilation distribution comprising a data point representative of a left-to-right ventilation distribution along a left-to-right axis in a plane perpendicular to the cranial caudal axis and an anterior-to-posterior ventilation distribution along an axis perpendicular to the left-to-right axis and in the plane perpendicular to the cranial caudal axis;
• display the ventilation distribution of the patient;
• and
• adjust a visual intensity of one or more earlier displayed ventilation distributions.

A method of displaying a ventilation distribution for a patient comprising:

• obtaining a first ventilation distribution for the patient at a first time, the first ventilation distribution comprising a left-to-right ventilation distribution along a left-to-right axis in a plane perpendicular to the cranial caudal axis and an anterior-to-posterior ventilation distribution along an axis perpendicular to the left-to-right axis and in the plane perpendicular to the cranial caudal axis;
• obtaining a first perfusion distribution for the patient at the first time;
• plotting the first ventilation distribution within a graphical user interface of a display;
• plotting the first perfusion distribution within the graphical user interface of the display;
• obtaining a second ventilation distribution for the patient at a second time;
• obtaining a second perfusion distribution for the patient at the second time;
• plotting the second ventilation distribution within the graphical user interface of the display;
• plotting the second perfusion distribution within the graphical user interface of the display;
• in response to plotting the second ventilation distribution, adjusting a visual property of the first ventilation distribution, wherein the adjusted visual property of the first ventilation distribution visually distinguishes the first ventilation distribution from the second ventilation distribution;
• and
• in response to plotting the second perfusion distribution, adjusting a visual property of the first perfusion distribution, wherein the adjusted visual property of the first perfusion distribution visually distinguishes the first perfusion distribution from the second perfusion distribution.