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The segmental branches are shown in the different colours and the numbering stands for each segmental airway generation. The segmental generation ensured all segmental bronchi started at segmental generation 1 to avoid discrepancies in the upper and lower segmental airway generations as demonstrated in Online Supplementary Material Fig. E2 (Artist: K. Rubenis)
