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Quantitative lung SPECT applied on simulated early COPD and humans with advanced COPD

BACKGROUND: Reduced ventilation in lung regions affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), reflected as inhomogeneities in the single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) lung image, is correlated to disease advancement. An analysis method for measuring these inhomogeneities is...

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Autores principales: Norberg, Pernilla, Persson, Hans Lennart, Carlsson, Gudrun Alm, Bake, Björn, Kentson, Magnus, Sandborg, Michael, Gustafsson, Agnetha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3706344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23597059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-219X-3-28