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 …

Computed tomography (CT) of the lung has made major advances in hardware and software
over the last decade. The human lung can now be imaged rapidly and volumetrically, with …

Fundamentally important to the future of pulmonary medicine is a better description and
understanding of the human lung and its response to disease, injury, and treatment, which is …

CT is superior to other imaging techniques for the study of lung diseases, as it can provide
excellent anatomic detail of various structures. Advances in CT technology have transformed …

Our understanding of lung biology can be greatly enhanced by studying embryonic and
postnatal lung development, and the perturbations which occur during disease. Imaging …

Tissue imaging is broadly used to understand and monitor the progression of pathologic
processes. It contributes information that cannot be obtained by any other techniques, such …

Airway remodeling is an important pathophysiological mechanism in a variety of chronic
airway diseases. Historically investigators have had to use invasive techniques such as …

At the 2004 International Workshop on Functional Pulmonary Imaging, papers were
presented with a dazzling array of new methods of imaging the lung with signals from X-ray …

The lungs are the most fundamental organs of the respiratory system. Their primary role is to
facilitate gas exchange from the air into the blood. This is performed via two mechanisms …

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