Silicosis: Expiratory thin-section CT assessment of airway obstruction

Radiology

Volumn 236, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1059-1066

  Arakawa, Hiroaki ^a   Gevenois, Pierre Alain ^b   Saito, Yoshiaki ^c   Shida, Hisao ^c   De Maertelaer, Viviane ^b   Morikubo, Hiroshi ^c   Fujioka, Mutsuhisa ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c Labour Welfare Hospital for Silicosis   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FORCED EXPIRATION; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INHALATION; JAPAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG NODULE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SILICOSIS; SPIROMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SILICOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 23844541683     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2363041611     Document Type: Article

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