Assessment of lung volume collapsibility in chronic obstructive lung disease patients using CT.

Objective: To investigate the collapsibility of the lung and individual lobes in patients with COPD during inspiration/expiration and assess the association of whole lung and lobar volume changes with pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and disease severity.Methods: PFT measures used were RV/TLC%, FEV1%...

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Published in:	European Radiology Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 1564 - 1573
Main Authors:	Kundu, Shinjini, Gu, Suicheng, Leader, Joseph K, Tedrow, John R, Sciurba, Frank C, Gur, David, Kaminski, Naftali, Pu, Jiantao
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jun2013
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