Quantification of tortuosity and fractal dimension of the lung vessels in pulmonary hypertension patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Helmberger, Michael ^a,b   Pienn, Michael ^a   Urschler, Martin ^a,b   Kullnig, Peter ^c   Stollberger, Rudolf ^b   Kovacs, Gabor ^a,d   Olschewski, Andrea ^a,d   Olschewski, Horst ^a,d   Bálint, Zoltán ^a  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Diagnostikzentrum Graz   (Austria)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FILTER; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GAS ANALYSIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL TORTUOSITY; LUNG EXAMINATION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RIGHT SIDED HEART CATHETERIZATION; THORAX; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT FILTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84900324191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087515     Document Type: Article

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