Sliding thin slab, minimum intensity projection imaging for objective analysis of emphysema

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 415-421

  Satoh, Shiro ^a   Ohdama, Shinichi ^a   Shibuya, Hitoshi ^b  

^a Ohme Municipal General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Emphysema; Function; Lung; Minimum intensity projection; Pulmonary

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; IMAGING; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AORTA, THORACIC; CARBON MONOXIDE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA; VITAL CAPACITY; X-RAY INTENSIFYING SCREENS;

EID: 33748929107     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-006-0045-y     Document Type: Article

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