ReviewRadiology2021
Pulmonary Functional Imaging: Part 2-State-of-the-Art Clinical Applications and Opportunities for Improved Patient Care.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Back to the future in asthma imaging: quantitative assessment and new perspectives.La Radiologia medica · 2026Review
- Dynamic perfusion area-detector CT in non-small cell lung cancer with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease.European radiology · 2025Article
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Clinical Evaluation of Lung Disorders: Current Status and Future Prospects.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2025Review
- Innovation in technologies for monitoring lung function in patients with respiratory disease.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2025Article
- Recent trends in scientific research in chest radiology: What to do or not to do? That is the critical question in research.Japanese journal of radiology · 2025Review
- Global trends and developments in pulmonary magnetic resonance imaging research: a bibliometric analysis of the past decade.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Breaking new ground in COPD imaging: 3D-PREFUL MRI versus traditional techniques.European radiology · 2025Article
- Risk factors of severe conditions in hospitalized children with adenovirus infection and chest CT features.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Flow-Field Inference for Turbulent Exhale Flow Measurement.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Automatic lung segmentation of magnetic resonance images: A new approach applied to healthy volunteers undergoing enhanced Deep-Inspiration-Breath-Hold for motion-mitigated 4D proton therapy of lung tumors.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2024Article
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- Lung functional imaging.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2023Article
- Area-Detector Computed Tomography for Pulmonary Functional Imaging.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Computerized Tomographic Assessment for Phenotyping Asthma.Allergy, asthma & immunology research · 2023Article
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Abstract
Pulmonary functional imaging may be defined as the regional quantification of lung function by using primarily CT, MRI, and nuclear medicine techniques. The distribution of pulmonary physiologic parameters, including ventilation, perfusion, gas exchange, and biomechanics, can be noninvasively mapped and measured throughout the lungs. This information is not accessible by using conventional pulmonary function tests, which measure total lung function without viewing the regional distribution. The latter is important because of the heterogeneous distribution of virtually all lung disorders. Moreover, techniques such as hyperpolarized xenon 129 and helium 3 MRI can probe lung physiologic structure and microstructure at the level of the alveolar-air and alveolar-red blood cell interface, which is well beyond the spatial resolution of other clinical methods. The opportunities, challenges, and current stage of clinical deployment of pulmonary functional imaging are reviewed, including applications to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, interstitial lung disease, pulmonary embolism, and pulmonary hypertension. Among the challenges to the deployment of pulmonary functional imaging in routine clinical practice are the need for further validation, establishment of normal values, standardization of imaging acquisition and analysis, and evidence of patient outcomes benefit. When these challenges are addressed, it is anticipated that pulmonary functional imaging will have an expanding role in the evaluation and management of patients with lung disease.
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