Advanced visualization of airways with 64-MDCT: 3D mapping and virtual bronchoscopy.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this pictorial essay is to review the current role of virtual bronchoscopy and 3D imaging of the airways in clinical practice.


CONCLUSIONS
Virtual bronchoscopy produces high-resolution images of the tracheobronchial tree and endobronchial views that simulate the findings at conventional bronchoscopy. Interest in virtual bronchoscopy is increasing as a result of improvements in computer hardware and software and advances in MDCT that allow acquisition of isotropic data.
Horton
Karen M
KM
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 601 N Caroline St., JHOC 3253, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
Horton
Maureen R
MR
Fishman
Elliot K
EK
D001980:Bronchi / Q000166:cytology*; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface