title: Small airways, big challenge: measuring the unseen?
abstract: An imaging technique adapted to differentiate between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes can identify small-airway pathophysiology, locate the disease and potentially track disease progression. This approach may be used as a biomarker to identify the small-airway lesion in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, at an individual level in the clinic (pages 1711-1715).
authors.affiliation: Institute for Lung Health, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester & Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK. salman95@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Salman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Siddiqui
authors.forename: Omar S
authors.initials: OS
authors.lastname: Usmani
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; D011656:Pulmonary Emphysema; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed