Three-Dimensional Description of Pulmonary Deposition of Inhaled Aerosol Using Data from Multimodality Imaging

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 873-877

  Fleming, John S ^a   Halson, Peter ^b   Conway, Joy ^b   Moore, Elizabeth ^b   Nassim, Michael A ^b   Hashish, Adel H ^b   Bailey, Adrian G ^b   Holgate, Stephen T ^b   Marionen, Theodore B ^b  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arosol deposition measurement; Multimodality imaging; Three dimensional analysis

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; MACROSALB TC 99M; MICROSPHERE;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; NEBULIZER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSPHERES; NEBULIZERS AND VAPORIZERS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030138949     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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