Acoustic rhinometry in humans: Accuracy of nasal passage area estimates, and ability to quantify paranasal sinus volume and ostium size

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 616-623

  Tarhan, Erkan ^a,c   Coskun, Mehmet ^a   Cakmak, Ozcan ^a   Çelik, Hüseyin ^b   Cankurtaran, Mehmet ^b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Baçkent University   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Area overestimation; Computed tomography; Nasal cavity; Paranasal sinuses

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAXILLARY SINUS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NASAL PASSAGE AREA; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; PARAMETER; PARANASAL SINUS; PARANASAL SINUS VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOMETRY; SINUS OSTIUM SIZE;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PARANASAL SINUSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHINOMETRY, ACOUSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23044443067     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00106.2005     Document Type: Article

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