Human upper-airway respiratory airflow: In vivo comparison of computational fluid dynamics simulations and hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe phase contrast MRI velocimetry

• Qiwei Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qiwei Xiao, Neil J. Stewart

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Neil J. Stewart ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qiwei Xiao, Neil J. Stewart

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, POLARIS Group, Imaging Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8358-394X

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• Matthew M. Willmering,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-9622

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• Chamindu C. Gunatilaka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2713-6533

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• Robert P. Thomen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Pulmonary Imaging Research Laboratory, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

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• Andreas Schuh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Guruprasad Krishnamoorthy,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MR Clinical Science, Philips, Rochester, MN, United States of America

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• Hui Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, MR Clinical Science, Philips, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Raouf S. Amin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Charles L. Dumoulin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Jason C. Woods,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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• Alister J. Bates

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Alister.Bates@cchmc.org

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

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