Assessment of lung volumes in pulmonary emphysema using multidetector helical CT: Comparison with pulmonary function tests

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 399-404

  Arakawa, Akihiko ^a   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a   Nakayama, Yoshiharu ^a   Kadota, Masaki ^a   Korogi, Hirotsugu ^b   Kawano, Osamu ^b   Matsumoto, Mitsuhiro ^b   Takahashi, Mutsumasa ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Multidetector helical CT (MDCT); Pulmonary emphysema; Three dimensional

Indexed keywords

PULMONARY DISEASES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

LUNGS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034989167     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(01)00004-0     Document Type: Article

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