Advanced visualization of airways with 64-MDCT: 3D mapping and virtual bronchoscopy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 189, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1387-1396

  Horton, Karen M ^a   Horton, Maureen R ^a   Fishman, Elliot K ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airways; CT; Virtual bronchoscopy

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AIRWAY; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CARNIAN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DOSIMETRY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG CARCINOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEA;

BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 36448979535     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.2824     Document Type: Review

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