New and current clinical imaging techniques to study chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 588-597

  Coxson, Harvey O ^a,b   Mayo, John ^a,b   Lam, Stephen ^b,c   Santyr, Giles ^d,e   Parraga, Grace ^d,e   Sin, Don D ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Imaging; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; XENON;

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; TREATMENT RESPONSE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 70349441117     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200901-0159PP     Document Type: Review

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