Imaging advances in asthma

Expert Opinion on Medical Diagnostics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 453-465

  Walker, Carolina ^a   Gupta, Sumit ^a,b   Raj, Vimal ^b   Siddiqui, Salman ^a   Brightling, Christopher E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airway remodeling; Computed tomography; Functional imaging; Imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Severe asthma

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052072308     PISSN: 17530059     EISSN: 17530067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17530059.2011.609886     Document Type: Review

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