Measuring Small Airways in Transverse CT Images. Correction for Partial Volume Averaging and Airway Tilt

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1525-1534

  Conradi, Susan H ^a   Lutey, Barbara A ^a   Atkinson, Jeffrey J ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Senior, Robert M ^a   Gierada, David S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Airway wall; CT; Phase congruency

Indexed keywords

POLYCARBONATE;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG VOLUME; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TILTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149406772     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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