MDCT assessment of airway wall thickness in COPD patients using a new method: Correlations with pulmonary function tests

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2731-2738

  Achenbach, Tobias ^a   Weinheimer, Oliver ^a   Biedermann, Alexander ^a   Schmitt, Sabine ^a   Freudenstein, Daniela ^a   Goutham, Edula ^b   Kunz, Richard Peter ^a   Buhl, Roland ^a   Dueber, Christoph ^a   Heussel, Claus Peter ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Computer assisted diagnosis; Helical computed tomography

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SMOKING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56349167897     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1089-4     Document Type: Article

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