Lung imaging in asthmatic patients: The picture is clearer

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 467-478

  Castro, Mario ^a   Fain, Sean B ^b   Hoffman, Eric A ^c   Gierada, David S ^a   Erzurum, Serpil C ^d   Wenzel, Sally ^e  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; chest computed tomography; imaging; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

BECLOMETASONE; MEPOLIZUMAB; XENON;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ASTHMA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG IMAGING; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESIDUAL VOLUME; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPIROMETRY; STANDARDIZATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

EID: 80052263612     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2011.04.051     Document Type: Article

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