Advances for pulmonary functional imaging: dual-energy computed tomography for pulmonary functional imaging

Y Ozawa, Y Ohno, H Nagata, K Tamokami, K Nishikimi… - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) can improve the differentiation of material by
using two different X-ray energy spectra, and may provide new imaging techniques to …

Structural predictors of lung function decline in young smokers with normal spirometry

AI Ritchie, GC Donaldson, EA Hoffman… - American journal of …, 2024 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to tobacco smoking
commonly presents when extensive lung damage has occurred. Objectives: We …

Repeatability of Pulmonary Quantitative Computed Tomography Measurements in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

A Motahari, RG Barr, MLK Han… - American journal of …, 2023 - atsjournals.org
MBBS, MD; Stephen I Rennard, MD; Donald P Tashkin, MD; J Michael Wells, MD; Robert A
Wise, MD; and Prescott G Woodruff, MD, MPH. The project officers from the Lung Division of …

Direct estimation of regional lung volume change from paired and single CT images using residual regression neural network

SE Gerard, MFA Chaudhary, J Herrmann… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Chest computed tomography (CT) enables characterization of pulmonary
diseases by producing high‐resolution and high‐contrast images of the intricate lung …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating distributions of inhaled aerosols in the lungs of post-COVID-19 clusters through a unified imaging and modeling approach

X Zhang, F Li, PK Rajaraman, AP Comellas… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Recent studies, based on clinical data, have identified sex and age as
significant factors associated with an increased risk of long COVID. These two factors align …

Imaging regional airway involvement of asthma: Heterogeneity in ventilation, mucus plugs and remodeling

ML Schiebler, N Tsuchiya, A Hahn, S Fain… - Precision Approaches to …, 2023 - Springer
The imaging of asthma using chest computed tomography (CT) is well-established (Jarjour
et al., Am J Respir Crit Care Med 185 (4): 356–62, 2012; Castro et al., J Allergy Clin Immunol …

High-resolution three-dimensional hybrid MRI+ low dose CT vocal tract modeling: a cadaveric pilot study

D Meyer, RZ Rusho, A Wahidul, GE Christensen… - Journal of Voice, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives MRI based vocal tract models have many applications in voice research and
education. These models do not adequately capture bony structures (eg teeth, mandible) …

LungViT: Ensembling Cascade of Texture Sensitive Hierarchical Vision Transformers for Cross-Volume Chest CT Image-to-Image Translation

MFA Chaudhary, SE Gerard… - IEEE transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Chest computed tomography (CT) at inspiration is often complemented by an expiratory CT
to identify peripheral airways disease. Additionally, co-registered inspiratory-expiratory …

Robust Quantification of Percent Emphysema on CT via Domain Attention: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung Study

X Zhang, ED Angelini, EA Hoffman, KE Watson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robust quantification of pulmonary emphysema on computed tomography (CT) remains
challenging for large-scale research studies that involve scans from different scanner types …

[Retracted] Research on the Development of Localized Music Curriculum System Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

D Yu, T Gong - Scientific Programming, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The integration and development of music curriculum signals have attracted the attention of
researchers in real teaching scenarios. Based on the theory of multiple intelligences …