Novel imaging approaches in adult asthma and their clinical potential

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1147-1162

  Hartley, Ruth ^a   Baldi, Simonetta ^a   Brightling, Chris ^a   Gupta, Sumit ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

asthma; endobronchial ultrasound; hyperpolarized MRI; molecular imaging; optical coherence tomography; positron emission tomography; quantitative computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASTHMA; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BIOMARKERS; HUMANS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84942193907     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: 17448409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/1744666X.2015.1072049     Document Type: Review

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