Mucus Plugs in Asthma at CT Associated with Regional Ventilation Defects at 3He MRI

DG Mummy, EM Dunican, KJ Carey, MD Evans… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Airway mucus plugs in asthma are associated with exacerbation frequency,
increased eosinophilia, and reduced lung function. The relationship between mucus plugs …

Functional lung imaging using novel and emerging MRI techniques

CT Foo, D Langton, BR Thompson, F Thien - Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Respiratory diseases are leading causes of death and disability in the world. While early
diagnosis is key, this has proven difficult due to the lack of sensitive and non-invasive tools …

CT and Functional MRI to Evaluate AirwayáMucus in Severe Asthma

S Svenningsen, E Haider, C Boylan, M Mukherjee… - Chest, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Intraluminal contributor (s) to airflow obstruction in severe asthma are patient-
specific and must be evaluated to personalize treatment. The occurrence and functional …

A novel, noninvasive assay shows that distal airway oxygen tension is low in cystic fibrosis, but not in primary ciliary dyskinesia

L Mendelsohn, C Wijers, R Gupta… - Pediatric …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Oxygen tension affects the biology of aerobic and denitrifying organisms. Using a
novel, fast‐response sensor, we developed a noninvasive procedure to measure pO2 in …

and Sean B. Fain

DG Mummy, W Zha, RL Sorkness - MRI of the Lung, 2018 - books.google.com
Asthma 225 sions of the small airways that are a locus of ventilation heterogeneity in
asthma. Both oxygen-enhanced and fluorinated gas MRI are less well developed in asthma …