… , centrilobular emphysema typically … emphysema can be identified on CT scan as uniform
destruction of the lobule. Finally, paraseptal emphysema is a form of panlobular emphysema …

… that imaging has made to our understanding of COPD over the past 10 years. Imaging …
Hyperpolarized helium-3 is a remarkable tool for imaging emphysema. On MRI following …

… imaging COPD and present the novel optical coherence tomography (OCT) airway imaging
… technologies have the potential to improve our understandings of the origins of COPD and …

… managing COPD patients. We discussed the current role imaging plays in COPD management
… quantitative imaging will play by identifying imaging phenotypes to enable more effective …

… However, it can provide information for enhancing diagnosis, … conventional medical imaging
is used in COPD diagnosis, … emerging techniques of molecular imaging can augment these …

… diagnostic possibilities of CT complemented by MRI will allow for a more sensitive
detection, phenotype-driven characterization and dedicated therapy monitoring of COPD as …

… Imaging has changed our understanding of COPD from one of emphysema and airway …
Imaging has also allowed us to appreciate the limitations of spirometry for disease detection …

… and paraseptal emphysema phenotypes of COPD [16]. Therefore, early detection and
diagnosis of small airway disease in COPD is fundamental for early diagnosis of COPD. The small …

… CT is the imaging modality of choice to detect emphysema and assess its severity in vivo,
and CT also provides a detailed mapping of the regional distribution of emphysema. Areas of …

… This review gives a comprehensive account of the various advanced imaging modalities
used to study COPD, including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), …