Quantitative assessment of cross-sectional area of small pulmonary vessels in patients with COPD using inspiratory and expiratory MDCT

Y Matsuura, N Kawata, N Yanagawa, T Sugiura… - European Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objectives Structural and functional changes in pulmonary vessels are prevalent at the initial
stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). These vascular alterations can be …

Prevalence and characteristics of paratracheal air cysts and their association with emphysema in a general population

HM Cheng, PY Chang, KH Chiang, HW Huang… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: To evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of paratracheal air cysts
and their association with emphysema and gender in a general population using low-dose …

Mass and fat infiltration of intercostal muscles measured by CT histogram analysis and their correlations with COPD severity

MJ Park, JM Cho, KN Jeon, KS Bae, HC Kim… - Academic radiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized
by progressive respiratory function impairment and respiratory muscle dysfunction. We …

[HTML][HTML] Emphysema in active farmer's lung disease

T Soumagne, ML Chardon, G Dournes, L Laurent… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Farmer's lung (FL) is a common type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. It is often
considered that fibrosis is the most frequent finding in chronic FL. Nevertheless, three cohort …

Clinical-radiologic-pathologic correlation of smoking-related diffuse parenchymal lung disease

S Kligerman, TJ Franks, JR Galvin - Radiologic Clinics, 2016 - radiologic.theclinics.com
The smoke emerging from the mouthpiece of a cigarette is an aerosol containing about 1010
particles per milliliter. 1 This smoke is composed of more than 5000 types of chemicals …

Racial differences in CT phenotypes in COPD

NN Hansel, GR Washko, MG Foreman… - COPD: Journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background: Whether African Americans (AA) are more susceptible to COPD than
non-Hispanic Whites (NHW) and whether racial differences in disease phenotype exist is …

Evaluation of the extent of ground-glass opacity on high-resolution CT in patients with interstitial pneumonia associated with systemic sclerosis: comparison between …

H Yabuuchi, Y Matsuo, H Tsukamoto, T Horiuchi… - Clinical Radiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Aim To verify whether quantitative analysis of the extent of ground-glass opacity (GGO) on
high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) could show a stronger correlation with the …

Influence of the distribution of emphysema on diaphragmatic motion in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

T Iwasawa, H Takahashi, T Ogura, A Asakura… - Japanese journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Purpose We investigated whether the distribution of emphysema on computed tomography
(CT) images can affect chest wall motion in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic emphysema detection using weakly labeled HRCT lung images

I Pino Peña, V Cheplygina, S Paschaloudi, M Vuust… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Purpose A method for automatically quantifying emphysema regions using High-Resolution
Computed Tomography (HRCT) scans of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary …

Functional respiratory imaging (FRI) for optimizing therapy development and patient care

B Hajian, J De Backer, W Vos… - Expert review of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Functional imaging techniques offer the possibility of improved visualization of anatomical
structures such as; airways, lobe volumes and blood vessels. Computer-based flow …