Normal range of emphysema and air trapping on CT in young men

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 336-340

  Mets, Onno M ^a   Van Hulst, Robert A ^b,c   Jacobs, Colin ^d,e   Van Ginneken, Bram ^e,f   De Jong, Pim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Diving Medical Center   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Air trapping; CT; Healthy subjects; Pulmonary emphysema; Quantitative assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIVER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SAILOR; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864765258     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7808     Document Type: Article

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