Spirometric gated quantitative computed tomography of the lung in healthy smokers and nonsmokers

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 335-343

  Pelikovicovic, Dalip ^a,b   Lörcher, Ulrich ^a   Chow, Kai U ^a   Kronenberger, Hartmut ^a   Buhl, Roland ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHE KLINIK FÜR DIAGNOSTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

bronchitis; Computed tomography; high resolution lung; lung density; lung function; smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0343924548     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004424-199706000-00004     Document Type: Article

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