Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a life-threatening fungal disease that causes high morbidity and
mortality in immunosuppressed patients. Early and accurate diagnosis and treatment of IA …

Before microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) can be exploited to its full potential for
longitudinal monitoring of transgenic and experimental mouse models of lung diseases …

Lung diseases such as fibrosis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, infection and cancer are life-
threatening conditions that slowly deteriorate quality of life and for which our diagnostic …

Translational research aims to provide direct support for advancing novel treatment
approaches in oncology towards improving patient outcomes. Preclinical studies have a …

Multimodality molecular imaging emerges as a powerful strategy for correlating multimodal
information. We developed a pentamodal imaging system which can perform positron …

Aspergillus fumigatus causes life-threatening lung infections in immunocompromised
patients. Mouse models are extensively used in research to assess the in vivo efficacies of …

Small animal models of lung fibrosis are essential for unraveling the molecular mechanisms
underlying human fibrotic lung diseases; additionally, they are useful for preclinical testing of …

Purpose The soft tissue imaging in micro-CT remains challenging due to its low intrinsic
contrast. The aim of this study was to create a simple staining method omitting the usage of …

In order to study how to use pulmonary functional imaging obtained through 4D-CT fusion
for radiotherapy planning, and transform traditional dose volume parameters into functional …

Molecular imaging of inflammatory lung diseases, such as asthma, has been limited to date.
The recruitment of innate immune cells to the airways is central to the inflammation process …