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Advancing CT and MR imaging of the lungs and airways in children: imaging into practice

Author: Edward Y. Lee

Published in: Pediatric Radiology | Special Issue 2/2008

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Understanding the ever-accelerating evolution of imaging technologies has been a great challenge yet an essential aspect of modern day radiology practice. Although lung and airway evaluation has been obtained historically with conventional chest radiographs or fluoroscopy in infants and children, today new imaging techniques with multidetector CT [MDCT] (e.g., two-dimensional [2D] and three-dimensional [3D] reconstruction images, paired inspiratory–expiratory central airway imaging) and MRI with hyperpolarized gases [e.g., ³He and ¹²⁹Xe]) have opened new ways of evaluating various lung and airway disease processes in the pediatric population. The primary objective of this presentation is to present a review of recent advances in MDCT and MRI techniques aimed at evaluating both the structure and function of lungs and airways in infants and children. …

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Title: Advancing CT and MR imaging of the lungs and airways in children: imaging into practice
Author: Edward Y. Lee
Publication date: 01-05-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Pediatric Radiology / Issue Special Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0301-0449
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1998
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-008-0767-3

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