Virtual bronchoscopy for evaluation of malignant tumors of the thorax

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 967-972

  Finkelstein, Steven E ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^b   Nguyen, Dao M ^a   Stewart IV, John H ^a   Tretler, Jean A ^a   Schrump, David S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0036587243     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.121495     Document Type: Article

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