Affiliations:
1Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;
2Australian Multiple Breath Washout Central Over-Reading Centre, Sydney, Australia
3Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Guys and St Thomas’ Trust, London, UK;
4National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK;
5European Cystic Fibrosis Society Lung Clearance Index Core Facility, London, United Kingdom
6Translational Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
7Division of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
8Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Multiple Breath Washout National Resource Centre, Toronto, Canada
9University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;
10Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;
11Airway Physiology and Imaging group, Woolcock Medical Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;
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