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Demonstration of the heterogeneous distribution of asthma in the lungs using CT and hyperpolarized helium-3 MRI.
Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI - 1 Dec 2010
Aysola Ravi, de Lange Eduard E, Castro Mario, Altes Talissa A
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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects both the large and small airways and results in bronchoconstriction, mucous hypersecretion, smooth muscle hypertrophy, and subepithelial fibrosis. To gain insight into the pathophysiology of asthma, chest computed tomography (CT) has been inve...
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