Aerosol-derived airway morphometry and aerosol bolus dispersion in patients with lung fibrosis and lung emphysema

Chest

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 543-548

  Brand, Peter ^a   Kohlhäufl, Martin ^a   Meyer, Thomas ^a   Selzer, Titus ^a   Heyder, Joachim ^a   Häußinger, Karl ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convective gas mixing; Lung emphysema; Lung fibrosis; Lung morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROSOL; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

EID: 0032791987     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.116.2.543     Document Type: Article

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