Limits of normality of quantitative thoracic CT analysis

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Cressoni, Massimo ^a   Gallazzi, Elisabetta ^a   Chiurazzi, Chiara ^a   Marino, Antonella ^a   Brioni, Matteo ^a   Menga, Federica ^a   Cigada, Irene ^a   Amini, Martina ^a   Lemos, Alessandro ^b   Lazzerini, Marco ^b   Carlesso, Eleonora ^a   Cadringher, Paolo ^a   Chiumello, Davide ^b   Gattinoni, Luciano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

acute lung injury; CAT scan chest; computed tomography; lung; mechanical ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LUNG; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDUAL VOLUME; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STERNUM; SUPINE POSITION; THORAX; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; VITAL CAPACITY; AGED; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887253495     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc12738     Document Type: Article

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