Are we measuring pulmonary emphysema?

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1073-

  Hochhegger, Bruno ^a   Marchiori, Edson ^a   Irion, Klaus L ^a   Moreira, Jose ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HUMANS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIATION DOSAGE; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952883044     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.10.032     Document Type: Letter

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