Three-dimensional airway measurements and algorithms

Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 905-909

  Estépar, Raúl San José ^a   Reilly, John J ^b   Silverman, Edwin K ^a   Washko, George R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway wall thickness; Computed tomography; COPD; Lung imaging

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLONOSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MORPHOMETRICS; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57349145376     PISSN: 15463222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/pats.200809-104QC     Document Type: Review

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