Monitoring of experimental rat lung transplants by high-resolution flat-panel Volumetric Computer Tomography (fpVCT)

Journal of Investigative Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-75

  Greschus, Susanne ^a   Kuchenbuch, Tim ^b   Ploẗz, Christian ^b   Obert, Martin ^a   Traupe, Horst ^a   Padberg, Winfried ^b   Grau, Veronika ^b   Hirschburger, Markus ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lung transplantation; Rejection; Volumetric Computed Tomography

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FLAT PANEL VOLUMETRIC COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; ISOGRAFT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; BRONCHI; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT REJECTION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59749105041     PISSN: 08941939     EISSN: 15210553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941930802566722     Document Type: Article

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