[HTML][HTML] Airway fractal dimension predicts respiratory morbidity and mortality in COPD

S Bodduluri, ASK Puliyakote, SE Gerard… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by airway
remodeling. Characterization of airway changes on computed tomography has been …

Gravity outweighs the contribution of structure to passive ventilation-perfusion matching in the supine adult human lung

W Kang, AR Clark, MH Tawhai - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Gravity and matched airway/vascular tree geometries are both hypothesized to be key
contributors to ventilation-perfusion (V̇/Q̇) matching in the lung, but their relative …

In silico modeling of oxygen‐enhanced MRI of specific ventilation

W Kang, MH Tawhai, AR Clark, RC Sá… - Physiological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Specific ventilation imaging (SVI) proposes that using oxygen‐enhanced 1H MRI to capture
signal change as subjects alternatively breathe room air and 100% O2 provides an estimate …