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quent tracheal surgery: it began with the perception of being able to overcome the numerous obstacles that can prevent the passage of air through the tracheo-bronchial axis by using innovative materials and technologies. The certainty arrived in 1990’s when Dr JF Dumon created a silicone "dedicated tracheobronchial stent". It provided great acceleration. Bronchoscopy remains the strategic procedure for the central airways, nevertheless MDCT imaging plays an essential role in the planning and guid-ance of bronchoscopic interventions and, most of all, providing a non invasive method for postprocedural sur-veillance. Volumetric isotropic acquisition ensures the detection of structures with a uniform geometry and high spatial resolution in all planes providing an ex-Imaging of central airway multidetector compute