Quantitative CT Analysis in Patients with Pulmonary Emphysema: Do Calculated Differences Between Full Inspiration and Expiration Correlate with Lung Function?
Lan SongJonas A LeppigRalf H HubnerBianca C Lassen-SchmidtKonrad NeumannDorothea C TheiligFelix W FeldhausUte L FahlenkampBernd HammWei SongZheng-Yu JinFelix DoellingerPublished in: International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2020)
Our results suggest that QCT can help predict the severity of lung function decrease in patients with pulmonary emphysema and COPD GOLD 3 or 4. Some QCT parameters, including P15EX and P15Diff, correlated moderately to strongly with parameters of pulmonary function tests.