Pulmonary structures provide morphological basis for the vital functions to our body, which
needs adequate airway flow, respiratory dynamics, lung ventilation, gas exchange, and lung …

Tobacco smoking is a risk factor for both pulmonary disease and atherosclerosis and a
number of studies have provided both experimental and epidemiological evidence about the …

Imaging plays a central role in the screening, classification, and monitoring of pulmonary
vascular disease (PVD). In patients with diagnosed PVD, it allows noninvasive quantification …

Rationale: correlated with the heterogeneity of CT-derived dynamic perfused blood flow (CT-
PBF). CT-PBF heterogeneity has been proposed as a phenotype of centrilobular …

Computed tomography (CT) is the modality of choice for imaging the airways. Volumetric
data sets with isotropic spatial resolution based on multidetector thin-section CT with …

Purpose: COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is a collection of lung diseases that
complicates breathing and causes irreversible lung damage. Given that it is a progressive …

Method CT evaluation (n= 208) were excluded. Lungs and pulmonary blood vessels were
automatically extracted from volumetric inspiratory CT to calculate the lung volume (LV) and …

Background Exposure to cigarette smoke has been shown to lead to vascular remodelling.
Computed tomography (CT) imaging measures of vascular pruning have been associated …

Since the introduction of multi–detector row computed tomography (MDCT), most attention
has been directed toward the use of this technique to improve the characterization of …

In this issue of Academic Radiology, Washko and colleagues (1) have newly focused on
voxel-based tissue volume (lung mass) rather than regional air content within a large cohort …