Hiroto Hatabu, MD, PhD, is professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and medical
director of the Center for Pulmonary Functional Imaging in the Radiology Department at …

Disorders of the lungs such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are a major
cause of chronic morbidity and mortality and the third leading cause of death in the world …

Background X-ray dark-field radiography takes advantage of the wave properties of x-rays,
with a relatively high signal in the lungs due to the many air-tissue interfaces in the alveoli …

Dr Hatabu is professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and medical director of the
Center for Pulmonary Functional Imaging in the radiology department at Brigham and …

X-ray chest radiography is an inexpensive and broadly available tool for initial assessment
of the lung in clinical routine, but typically lacks diagnostic sensitivity for detection of …

This chest imaging review series covers the recent key developments that are transforming
the role of imaging. Keywords: chest imaging; radiology EN chest imaging radiology 815 …

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether diagnosing pulmonary fibrosis with projection
radiography can be improved by using X-ray dark-field radiograms. Pulmonary X-ray …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to assess whether the recently developed method
of grating-based x-ray dark-field radiography can improve the diagnosis of pulmonary …

Purpose: To evaluate the performance of an experimental X-ray dark-field radiography
system for chest imaging in humans and to compare with conventional diagnostic imaging …

Background Although x-ray dark-field imaging has been intensively investigated for lung
imaging in different animal models, there is very limited data about imaging features in the …