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 …

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 …

Pulmonary functional imaging modalities such as computed tomography, magnetic
resonance imaging and nuclear imaging can quantitatively assess regional lung functional …

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 …

Since the previous review on this topic of functional computed tomography (CT) and MRI of
the lung, significant advances have been made into the development of imaging based …

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 …

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 …

Morphological evaluation of the lung is important in the clinical evaluation of pulmonary
diseases. However, the disease process, especially in its early phases, may primarily result …

Numerous imaging techniques permit evaluation of regional pulmonary function. Contrast-
enhanced CT methods now allow assessment of vasculature and lung perfusion …