Airway wall thickness assessed using computed tomography and optical coherence tomography

HO Coxson, B Quiney, DD Sin, L Xing… - American journal of …, 2008 - atsjournals.org
… Rationale: Computed tomography (CT) has been shown to reliably measure the airway
wall dimensions of medium to large airways. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a …

Computed tomographic imaging of the airways: relationship to structure and function

PA De Jong, NL Müller, PD Pare… - European Respiratory …, 2005 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… in computed tomography allow the assessment of airway wall … of the pathogenesis of
airway wall remodelling and the … use of computed tomography in the investigation of airway

Quantitative computed tomography assessment of airway wall dimensions: current status and potential applications for phenotyping chronic obstructive pulmonary …

HO Coxson - Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2008 - atsjournals.org
… for methods to noninvasively measure the airway wall dimensions in subjects with and …
Airway wall thickness assessed using computed tomography and optical coherence tomography

Quantitative assessment of the airway wall using computed tomography and optical coherence tomography

HO Coxson, S Lam - Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2009 - atsjournals.org
… of airway wall thickening such that if a subject with COPD has thickened airway walls, there
is an increased odds ratio that their sibling would also have airway wall thickening (18). It …

An analysis algorithm for measuring airway lumen and wall areas from high-resolution computed tomographic data

GG King, NL Muller, KP Whittall, QS Xiang… - American journal of …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
… (HRCT) has been used to examine airway narrowing. We … computed tomographic image
analysis algorithm (computed tomographic airway morphometry; CTAM) to measure airway

The prediction of small airway dimensions using computed tomography

Y Nakano, JC Wong, PA de Jong, L Buzatu… - American journal of …, 2005 - atsjournals.org
… We reasoned that the airway wall remodeling and luminal narrowing might involve all
levels of the tracheobronchial tree in susceptible smokers and be detectable using HRCT. …

Airway wall thickness in asthma assessed by computed tomography: relation to clinical indices

A Niimi, H Matsumoto, R Amitani, Y Nakano… - American journal of …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
airway wall thickening occurs in patients with asthma and is not limited to those with severe
disease. The degree of airway wall … Postmortem studies have shown that the airway walls of …

Quantitative computed tomography measures of emphysema and airway wall thickness are related to respiratory symptoms

TB Grydeland, A Dirksen, HO Coxson… - American journal of …, 2010 - atsjournals.org
computed tomography (HRCT) measures of emphysema (percent low-attenuation areas less
than −950 Hounsfield units, %LAA) and airway wall … , and between airway wall thickness …

Airway wall thickness in patients with near fatal asthma and control groups: assessment with high resolution computed tomographic scanning

N Awadh, NL Müller, CS Park, RT Abboud… - Thorax, 1998 - thorax.bmj.com
… We found thickening of the airway wall in both large airways (L >2 mm) and small airways
(L ⩽2 mm) of asthma patients compared with normal controls. Our findings are similar to those …

High resolution computed tomographic assessment of airway wall thickness in chronic asthma: reproducibility and relationship with lung function and severity

SA Little, MW Sproule, MD Cowan, KJ Macleod… - Thorax, 2002 - thorax.bmj.com
computed tomography (HRCT) has been advocated for assessing the structural changes in
the asthmatic lung and permits investigation of the relationships between airway wallairway