title: Advanced visualization of airways with 64-MDCT: 3D mapping and virtual bronchoscopy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 601 N Caroline St., JHOC 3253, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Karen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.forename: Maureen R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.forename: Elliot K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Fishman
mesh_terms: 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