Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography for Bronchoscopic Airway Smooth Muscle Detection in Bronchial Thermoplasty-Treated Patients With Asthma

Chest. 2021 Aug;160(2):432-435. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.03.042. Epub 2021 Mar 27.

Authors

Margherita Vaselli¹, Pieta C Wijsman², Joy Willemse³, Annika W M Goorsenberg², Fabio Feroldi³, Julia N S d'Hooghe², Jouke T Annema², Johannes F de Boer³, Peter I Bonta²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physics and Astronomy, LaserLab Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit de Boelelaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Pulmonology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Physics and Astronomy, LaserLab Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit de Boelelaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Asthma / diagnostic imaging*
Asthma / surgery*
Biopsy
Bronchial Thermoplasty*
Bronchoscopy*
Humans
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Muscle, Smooth / diagnostic imaging*
Muscle, Smooth / surgery*
Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*