Detection of Age-Related Changes in Thoracic Structure and Function by Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Positron Emission Tomography

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 103-119

  Well, David S ^a   Meier, Jeffrey M ^a   Mahne, Anton ^a   Houseni, Mohamed ^a   Hernandez Pampaloni, Miguel ^a   Mong, Andrew ^a   Mishra, Shipra ^a   Zhuge, Ying ^a   Souza, Andre ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Alavi, Abass ^a   Torigian, Drew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; APPARATUS; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; METABOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; THORAX; VOLUMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORAX;

EID: 33846685458     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2006.10.004     Document Type: Review

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