European Radiology

🫁📊 CT-Based Lung Ventilation Metrics: Establishing Reference Ranges in Healthy Individuals

Quantitative CT-based ventilation analysis is emerging as a promising tool for regional assessment of pulmonary function beyond conventional spirometry. This study establishes reference ranges for CT-derived lung ventilation metrics in healthy individuals and evaluates their relationship with pulmonary function tests (PFTs), demonstrating strong correlations between CT-derived parameters and established functional measurements.

"These findings support the growing role of functional CT imaging in respiratory assessment by providing spatially resolved information on lung ventilation that cannot be captured by global pulmonary function tests alone. Establishing normative reference values represents an important step toward integrating quantitative ventilation imaging into clinical and research workflows. 🖥️🫁" Sonja Jankovic



https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00330-026-12559-8 (Charlotte E. van den Berg et al.)

❓ How photon technology works, and will it change the way we use computed tomography? 👇

ESR Innovation in Focus: photon-counting detector CT

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00330-025-12197-6 (Victor Mergen, Hatem Alkadhi, Matthias Eberhard, Konstantin Nikolaou & Andreas M. Hötker)