EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The American Thoracic Society convened a workshop,“Advances
in Small Animal Imaging: Application to Lung Pathophysiology,” to identify cutting-edge …

OBJECTIVE. In this article, we consider a multitude of the latest techniques used for
evaluating benign and malignant pulmonary diseases. Our review will include mostly …

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 …

The pulmonary (or respiratory) system is responsible for gas exchange between the external
environment and the circulating blood supply in the body. The respiratory system contains a …

Describes investigating structure-function relationships in lung disease with high-resolution
CT. The diagnosis of lung diseases relies heavily on imaging, which can be broadly divided …

Lung diseases are a major burden of public health especially in developed countries and
therefore continue to be an active interest in preclinical and clinical research. Due to the …

Recent advances in imaging offer exciting opportunities to develop and validate lung-
specific biomarkers as valuable adjuncts to diagnosis, tests of treatment efficacy, and/or …

Over the past few decades, pulmonary imaging technologies have advanced from chest
radiography and nuclear medicine methods to high-spatial-resolution or low-dose chest CT …

Purpose: Small animal micro‐CT imaging is being used increasingly in preclinical
biomedical research to provide phenotypic descriptions of genomic models. Most of this …

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 …