Airway obstruction in asthmatic and healthy individuals: Inspiratory and expiratory thin-section CT findings

Radiology

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 361-367

  Park, Chan Sup ^a   Müller, Nestor L ^a   Worthy, Sylvia A ^a   Kim, Joung Sook ^a   Awadh, Naser ^a   Fitzgerald, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Bronchi, stenosis or obstruction; Lung, CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING; BRONCHODILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0007862628     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.203.2.9114089     Document Type: Article

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