Low agreement of visual rating for detailed quantification of pulmonary emphysema in whole-lung CT

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53-60

  Mascalchi, Mario ^a   Diciotti, Stefano ^a   Sverzellati, Nicola ^b   Camiciottoli, Gianna ^a   Ciccotosto, Cesareo ^c   Falaschi, Fabio ^d   Zompatori, Maurizio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Arezzo Hospital   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adults; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Computed tomography; Lung; Thorax

Indexed keywords

ADULTS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG; THORAX;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PULMONARY DISEASES; RATING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84856545731     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ar.2011.110419     Document Type: Article

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