List of relevant terms and abbreviations
| ARDS | Acute respiratory distress syndrome |
| HU | Hounsfield units |
| EI | End-inspiratory |
| EE | End-expiratory |
| Warping | Image processing methodology to register (superimpose) anatomical structures between scans |
| Severe injury | Lung tissue with irreversibly low gas content (ie, density >−300 HU) |
| Unstable inflation | Lung tissue with elevated changes in EI/EE gas content and with high risk of worsening injury (ie, increasing density) at later times |
| PRM | Parametric response map |
| ROC | Receiver operating characteristic |
| VT | Tidal volume |
| PEEP | Positive end-expiratory pressure |
| Cdyn | Dynamic compliance |
| PIP | Peak inspiratory pressure |