Chronic lung diseases (CLDs), such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial
lung disease, and lung cancer, are among the leading causes of morbidity globally and …

Over the last several years, microscopy as a scientific tool has reinvented itself evolving from
a group of principally descriptive methodologies to encompass a wide range of primary tools …

Emission tomography provides three-dimensional, quantitative images of the distribution of
radiotracers used to mark physiological, metabolic, or pathological processes. Quantitative …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. Exposure to cigarette smoke (CS) is a major risk factor for developing this …

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a lung disease that may cause impaired gas exchange and
respiratory failure while being difficult to treat. Rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection of …

Understanding the dynamic pathogenesis and treatment response in pulmonary diseases
requires probing the lung at cellular resolution in real time. Despite advances in intravital …

This research-level reference provides a review of the morphological techniques that have
become a primary method of anatomical study correlating structure and function in lung …

Biomedical imaging has become an important tool in the study of “-omics” fields by allowing
the noninvasive visualization of functional and molecular events using in vivo staining and …

Live imaging is critical to determining the dynamics and spatial interactions of cells within
the tissue environment. In the lung, this has proven to be difficult due to the motion brought …

Airway remodelling is a collective term for changes in the amount or organisation of the
cellular and molecular constituents of the airway wall. Remodelling occurs in and is …