Assessment of Small Airways with Computed Tomography: Mosaic Attenuation or Lung Density?
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Assessment of Small Airways with Computed Tomography: Mosaic Attenuation or Lung Density?
BACKGROUND Computed tomography (CT) assessment of air trapping has been considered useful as a measure of small airway disease. Mean lung density (MLD) and the percentage of the lung field occupied by low attenuation area (LAA%) can be evaluated automatically, and their expiratory/inspiratory (E/I) ratios correlate with asthma severity and spirometry parameters. However, mosaic attenuation, ano...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Respiration
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0025-7931,1423-0356
DOI: 10.1159/000381553