Small airways, big challenge: measuring the unseen?
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Abstract
An imaging technique adapted to differentiate between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes can identify small-airway pathophysiology, locate the disease and potentially track disease progression. This approach may be used as a biomarker to identify the small-airway lesion in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, at an individual level in the clinic (pages 1711-1715).
Medical subject headings
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Pulmonary Emphysema
- Tomography, Emission-Computed