Reliability of the proposed international classification of high- resolution computed tomography for occupational and environmental respiratory diseases

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 210-222

  Suganuma, Narufumi ^a   Kusaka, Yukinori ^b   Hering, Kurt G ^c   Vehmas, Tapio ^d   Kraus, Thomas ^e   Arakawa, Hiroaki ^f   Parker, John E ^g   Kivisaari, Leena ^h   Letourneux, Marc ⁱ   Gevenois, Pierre A ^j   Tuengerthal, Siegfreud ^k   Crane, Michael D ^l   Shida, Hisao ^m   Akira, Masanori ⁿ   Henry, Daniel A ^o   Nakajima, Yasuo ^p   Hiraga, Yohmei ^q   Itoh, Harumi ^r   Hosoda, Yutaka ^s  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b School of Medicine   (Japan)

^c Radiooncology and Nuclear Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^d FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ Service de Médicine du Travail et Pathologie Professionnelle   (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^k Clinic for Thoracic Diseases   (Germany)

^l LLANDOUGH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^m Rosai Hospital for Silicosis   (Japan)

ⁿ NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KINKI CHUO CHEST MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^o VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^q Sapporo Railway Hospital   (Japan)

^r UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^s RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Classification; Computed tomography (CT); Lung diseases; Occupational and environmental diseases; Pleura diseases; Thin section

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUNG DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LUNG DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69949100691     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13489585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.L8030     Document Type: Article

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