HIGHLIGHTED TOPIC Emergent Behavior in Lung Structure and Function Functional effect of longitudinal heterogeneity in constricted airways before and after lung expansion
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C. Wongviriyawong, R. S. Harris, H. Zheng, M. Kone, T. Winkler, and J. G. Venegas Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Departments of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit and of Biostatistics Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Functional effect of longitudinal heterogeneity in constricted airways before and after lung expansion.
Heterogeneity in narrowing among individual airways is an important contributor to airway hyperresponsiveness. This paper investigates the contribution of longitudinal heterogeneity (the variability along the airway in cross-sectional area and shape) to airway resistance (R(aw)). We analyzed chest high-resolution computed tomography scans of 8 asthmatic (AS) and 9 nonasthmatic (NA) subjects bef...
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