The use of traditional pulmonary function tests (PFT) to assess airflow obstruction is limited
by the fact that these measurements are global and can neither express the potential …

The report will focus on studies that illustrate how high resolution computed tomography can
be used to provide new insights into airway and lung function, that cannot be obtained with …

High-resolution x-ray CT (HRCT) provides detailed images of the lungs and bronchial tree.
HRCT-based imaging and quantitation of peripheral bronchial airway geometry provides a …

This is a particularly exciting era for thoracic imaging. Rapidly evolving technical advances
in CT and MR are enabling increasingly sophisticated capabilities for pulmonary functional …

Three-dimensional lung imaging has become a routine investigation in clinical medicine.
The clinical needs have driven the development of tomographic imaging, as much as the …

Technical advances in medical imaging have provided an opportunity to examine the
airways of the lung more accurately than ever before. The aim of this article is to review the …

Lung disease is a leading cause of mortality in the United States. 2, 69 Chronic lung disease
encompasses a spectrum of diffuse lung diseases including emphysema, chronic bronchitis …

Imaging of the airways is a fascinating undertaking and, if done expertly, a true art in
medicine. Over the past years, imaging of the airways has become ever more exciting and …

Conventional pulmonary function tests are limited in the mechanistic insight that they can
provide by the fact that they can only provide average measures of lung function. For …

Purpose: Our goal was to develop a protocol and image-processing methods to quantitate
both bronchial and lung attenuation changes in patients imaged with helical high-resolution …