Although the human and societal burden and cost of COPD is staggering, there are few
clinical tools that provide earlier diagnoses or a means to regionally monitor disease in a …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exhibits significant heterogeneity in its
clinical presentation and rate of disease progression among affected individuals, owing at …

BACKGROUND: COPD patients have varying degrees of airways disease and emphysema.
CT scanning can differentiate these pathological subtypes. We evaluated airway dimensions …

High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) is a useful method for quantifying the extent
of emphysema. Few reports have mentioned the relationships between HRCT scans and …

Chronic lung disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States.
Quantitative techniques for assessing emphysema and related airway disease have been …

Background and objective: Chest CT has been widely used for the evaluation of structural
changes in lung parenchyma and airways in cross‐sectional studies. There has been no …

Multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) can be used to quantify morphological
features and investigate structure/function relationship in COPD. This approach allows a …

Objectives Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by variable
contributions of emphysema and airway disease on computed tomography (CT), and still …

BACKGROUND: During the last few decades, high-resolution computed tomography
(HRCT) has come up as a new diagnostic modality to diagnose emphysematous and …

Background Recent advances in multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) facilitate
acquiring important clinical information for managing patients with COPD. MDCT can detect …