Open Access<p>Quantitative CT Analysis in Patients with Pulmonary Emphysema: Do Calculated Differences Between Full Inspiration and Expiration Correlate with Lung Function?</p>
Author(s) -
Lan Song,
Jonas Alexander Leppig,
Ralf-Harto Hübner,
Bianca Lassen-Schmidt,
Konrad Neumann,
Dorothea Theilig,
Felix Feldhaus,
Ute Lina Fahlenkamp,
Bernd Hamm,
Wei Song,
Zhengyu Jin,
Felix Doellinger
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s253602
Subject(s) - medicine , spirometry , copd , expiration , lung volumes , pulmonary function testing , vital capacity , lung , diffusing capacity , cardiology , respiratory disease , nuclear medicine , functional residual capacity , respiratory system , lung function , asthma
The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate correlations between parameters of quantitative computed tomography (QCT) analysis, especially the 15th percentile of lung attenuation (P15), and parameters of clinical tests in a large group of patients with pulmonary emphysema.