Time to Exhale: Additional Value of Expiratory Chest CT in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Joshua Gawlitza Frederik TrinkmannHans ScheffelAndreas FischerJohn W NanceClaudia HenzlerNils VoglerJoachim SaurIbrahim AkinMartin BorggrefeStefan O SchoenbergThomas Henzler

Published in: Canadian respiratory journal (2018)

Expiratory quantified CT and calculated delta values significantly improve the correlation with lung function parameters. Thus, an additional expiratory CT may improve image-based phenotyping of patients with COPD.

Keyphrases

lung function
image quality
dual energy
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
contrast enhanced
computed tomography
cystic fibrosis
air pollution
mechanical ventilation
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance imaging
deep learning
high throughput
magnetic resonance
acute respiratory distress syndrome