Área de especialidad: Ciencias Biológicas, Químicas y de la Salud
Disciplina: Médico Cirujano
 Temática: Anatomía general

 Definición
The superior part of the lungs, with its highest point located above the first rib, extending through the superior opening of the thoracic cavity, into the inferior floor of where the neck starts.

 Fuente / Autor
Medanta. (2022). Bronchial Asthma Treatment, Signs and Symptoms, Causes, Prevention. Recuperado el 07 de abril de 2022, de https://www.medanta.org/pulmonology-hospital/disease/bronchial-asthma/

 Contexto del término
The apex of the lungs experiences significant hysteresis motion while the inferior portion of the lungs experiences very little hysteresis. This study focuses on the relationship between the motion components contributing to tissue trajectories in the upper lung. The overall hypothesis is that reproducible patterns in lung motion can be found and used to extract clinically-relevant characteristics of the breathing motion of lung cancer patients, from multiple CT scans taken throughout a radiotherapy treatment course.

 Fuente / Autor
White, B., Lamb, J., Zhao, T., Jani, S., & Low, D. (2011). Distribution of Tissue Divergence in the Apex of the Lung. En International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics (Vol. 81, Issue 2, pp. S776–S777). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.