Airway imaging in disease: Gimmick or useful tool?

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 636-646

  Paré, Peter D ^a,b   Nagano, Taishi ^c   Coxson, Harvey O ^a,b  

^a The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthma; COPD; Emphysema; Radiology and other imaging

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY REMODELING; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

AIRWAY REMODELING; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864274053     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00372.2012     Document Type: Review

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