Airway wall thickness in cigarette smokers: Quantitative thin-section CT assessment

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1055-1064

  Berger, Patrick ^a   Perot, Vincent ^b   Desbarats, Pascal ^b   Tunon De Lara, José Manuel ^a   Marthan, Roger ^a   Laurent, François ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; AIRWAY WALL THICKNESS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; CALCULATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SILASTIC TUBE; THICKNESS; VITAL CAPACITY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SHEEP; SMOKING; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18844439451     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2353040121     Document Type: Article

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