Establishing clinically meaningful cutoffs for %emphysema and %gas trapping in quantitative chest CT scans

Richard Casaburi (Rancho Palos Verdes, United States of America), Richard Casaburi, Asli Gorek Dilektasli, Janos Porszasz, William W. Stringer, Surya Bhatt, George Washko, Peter Castaldi, Raul San Jose Estepar, James E. Hansen, For the COPDGene® Investigators

Source: International Congress 2015 – Functional imaging approaches for evaluating alteration of lung, airways and respiratory muscles
Disease area: Airway diseases

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