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¹ The Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
³ The Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
⁴ The Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Electronic address: joe-reinhardt@uiowa.edu.

Hira A Awan et al. Chest. 2025 Oct.

. 2025 Oct;168(4):e125-e126.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2025.06.009.

¹ The Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
³ The Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
⁴ The Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Electronic address: joe-reinhardt@uiowa.edu.

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Financial/Nonfinancial Disclosures See earlier cited article for author conflicts of interest.

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