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Therefore, conventional lung function tests (spirometry) are insensitive [5].

These findings support the association between conventional lung function tests and the AUC CV > 20%) value.

The results suggest that our present SPECT method has the capacity to identify minor lung function abnormalities earlier in a disease process than conventional lung function tests.

However, the potential effect of such aerosols cannot be fully evaluated by conventional lung function tests because these are insensitive to peripheral lung structure.

Using the adapted CVT method, with the newly implemented compensation technique, we showed that patients with lung function abnormalities detected by conventional lung function tests generated significantly higher AUC CV > 20%) values compared to healthy subjects with normal lung function tests (p = 0.006).

The fact that one of the 13 healthy subjects, who exhibited possible early signs of emphysema (S12), also showed abnormal AUC CV > 20%), tends to support the notion that the AUC CVT) method is more sensitive to minor pulmonary abnormalities than conventional lung function tests.

All of the conventional measures of lung function (FEV1, D lco/V a, RV, and FEV1/FVC) were reliable in distinguishing between EM only and EM plus BE and/or BWT (EM + BE/BWT), with receiver operator characteristic curves of < 0.6 (Fig 3).

However, the role of CT imaging in defining COPD phenotypes above and beyond conventional characterization with full lung function (spirometry, static lung volumes, and gas transfer) remains to be fully determined.

The objective of our study was to test this hypothesis in a prospective, double cross-over intervention trial comparing heliox 60/40 with conventional gas (nitrox) using lung function testing and electrical impedance tomography (EIT) measurements.

For example, clinically important improvements in the AQLQ score were observed in a trial comparing different formulations of inhaled beclometasone[ 37] and in a double-blind sham-controlled trial of bronchial thermoplasty[ 38] while in both studies conventional clinical indices of lung function and asthma control were similar.

In a retrospective cohort study of patients with progressive interstitial lung disease (ILD) associated with connective tissue disease not responding to conventional immunosuppressive regimens, rituximab improved lung function in seven of eight patients [ 24].