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Paired inspiratory-expiratory chest CT scans to assess for small airways disease in COPD
BACKGROUND: Gas trapping quantified on chest CT scans has been proposed as a surrogate for small airway disease in COPD. We sought to determine if measurements using paired inspiratory and expiratory CT scans may be better able to separate gas trapping due to emphysema from gas trapping due to small...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3627637/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23566024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-14-42 |