Description
The AiA rendering is from a coronal 3D reformat of a chest CT shows normal lungs and airways. The right lung has 3 lobes while the left lung has two lobes. The top left image shows the irregular and dichotomous branch pattern. At the first branch point, the right bronchus is short and fat and the left long and thin. The CT scan is then turned upside down in the top right image so that tracheobronchial system looks like a tree stripped of leaves in the winter. With digital rendering the image is shaped so the lungs reflect the character of the ginkgo leaves as part of the Gingko tree.