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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Pulmonary functional imaging may be defined as the regional quantification of lung function
by using primarily CT, MRI, and nuclear medicine techniques. The distribution of pulmonary …

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 …

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 …

For a long time, imaging of the chest was based on the use of either radiography,
demonstrating lung morphology, or scintigraphy, looking at lung function. However, as a …

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 …