Open AccessVirtual bronchoscopy: Our early experience
Author(s) -
Renuka Bradoo,
Nupur Kapoor Nerurkar,
Anagha Joshi,
Jayesh Shah
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2231-3796
pISSN - 0973-7707
DOI - 10.1007/bf02907671
Subject(s) - medicine , bronchoscopy , volume rendering , radiology , otorhinolaryngology , subglottic stenosis , airway , endoscopy , endoscope , stenosis , rendering (computer graphics) , surgery , computer graphics (images) , computer science
Virtual bronchoscopy is one of the many new radiological scanning techniques that have been recently introduced. Virtual endoscopy, according to Ahlquist (Ahlquist and Johnson CD, Gastroenterology, 112, 1997, 2150) is a technique for visualizing interior cavities using computer graphic techniques. Virtual bronchoscopy generates 3D reconstructions of the human airway from high-resolution CT data sets of the chest and performs a simulated bronchoscopy. This method uses perspective surface or volume rendering to produce endoscope-like visualizations of the airway. Our early experience with this new investigative modality in cases of laryngeal and subglottic stenosis and intratracheal tumors is discussed.