Limitations of Airway Dimension Measurement on Images Obtained Using Multi-Detector Row Computed Tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Oguma, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hirai, Toyohiro ^a   Niimi, Akio ^b   Matsumoto, Hisako ^a   Muro, Shigeo ^a   Shigematsu, Michio ^c   Nishimura, Takashi ^d   Kubo, Yoshiro ^e   Mishima, Michiaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c SUMITOMO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KYOTO KATSURA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC ACID RESIN; FLUOROCARBON; POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; AIRWAY DIMENSION MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; DIGITAL CALIPER; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING PHANTOM; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; THICKNESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84885145377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076381     Document Type: Article

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