… airway pathology. With additional advances in technology, it is likely … quantitative assessment
of airway wall dimensions will ultimately provide a valuable tool for the study of airway …

… 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 …

… methods to noninvasively measure the airway wall dimensions in subjects with … airway wall
dimensions. Unfortunately, while the lung density is relatively easy to quantify, reliable airway …

… airway lumen and WA on thin-section CT images. We then used this algorithm to demonstrate
that airway wall thickness assessed with quantitative … that reflects airway wall thickness (…

… stems largely from the lack of a reliable method to assess airway impairment. The purpose
of this study was to develop and validate a quantitative technique to estimate nasal airway …

… human airway walls 1 along with a narrowing of the peripheral airways, which is defined as
airways … measure emphysema and the dimensions of the human airways and airway walls. …

… in the airways observed on MDCT scans of patients with COPD, as well as the CT techniques
for quantitative assessment of the airways … and the assessment of therapeutic interventions. …

… quantitative assessment of the whole lung is thus possible [40]. Martinez et al. [41] have
shown the value of CT densitometry for predicting mortality in subjects with severe emphysema. …

… We calculated mean values of airway wall thikness (WT), luminal diameter (LD) and airway
wall … Square root of the wall area at an internal airway perimeter of 10 mm (Pi10) was also …

… quantitative assessment of airway caliber by means of videobronchoscopic (VB) examination.
Objectives: The purpose of the study was toshow that quantitative … We also assessed the …