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Developing clinical measures of lung function in COPD patients using medical imaging and computational modelling

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) describes a range of lung conditions including emphysema, chronic bronchitis and small airways disease. While COPD is a major cause of death and debilitating illness, current clinical assessment methods are inadequate: they are a poor predictor of patient outcome and insensitive to mild disease. A new imaging technology, hyperpolarised xenon MRI, offers the hope of improved diagnostic techniques, based on regional measurements using functional i...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
Research group:
Computational Biology
Oxford college:
Wolfson College
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Author

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MPLS
Department:
Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
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Division:
MPLS
Department:
Doctoral Training Centre - MPLS
Role:
Supervisor
Publication date:
2012
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford

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