It is an exciting time for pulmonary medicine. Genetic and molecular techniques are
providing deeper insight into disease mechanisms. As a consequence, diseases are …

The lung is a complex organ whose primary function is to supply the body with sufficient
oxygen to meet its metabolic needs and to remove the carbon dioxide formed as a byproduct …

An emerging suite of new imaging techniques offer the ability to monitor and quantify
molecular and cellular processes in the lungs noninvasively. These techniques take …

The role of imaging as a tool for investigating lung physiology is growing at an accelerating
pace. Looking forward, we wished to identify unresolved issues in lung physiology that might …

Revolutionary technical developments in radiologic imaging, especially nuclear magnetic
resonance(NMR) and positron emission tomography(PET), require that imagers become …

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 …

In vivo imaging is an important tool for preclinical studies of lung function and disease. The
widespread availability of multimodal animal imaging systems and the rapid rate of …

As pulmonary functional imaging moves beyond the realm of the radiologist and physicist, it
is important that imagers have a common language and understanding of the relevant …

Imaging of molecular signatures of specific structures, functions, and pathological alterations
in the lung tissue represents an important and challenging goal. This summary outlines …

Due to the close interaction of lung morphology and functions, repeatable measurements of
pulmonary function during longitudinal studies on lung pathophysiology and treatment …