Accurate diagnosis and quantification of pulmonary emphysema during life is important to
understand the natural history of the disease, to assess the extent of the disease, and to …

Bibliometrics is a set of mathematical and statistical methods used to analyze and measure
the quantity and quality of books, articles, and other forms of publications. There are three …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an increasing cause of morbidity and
mortality worldwide and results in substantial social and economic burdens. COPD is a …

… Patients with previous lung surgery (n = 1), microscopic evidence of interstitial lung disease
in the nontumoral parenchyma (n = 1), pleural disease (n = 1), and pneumonia or collapse (n …

The purpose of this prospective study was to verify whether the percentage area of lung
occupied by lowest attenuation values on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scans …

The purpose of this statement is to describe and define the phenotypic abnormalities that can
be identified on visual and quantitative evaluation of computed tomographic (CT) images …

… First, Gevenois et al used parametric correlation tests, whereas we used nonparametric
tests on account of the skewed distribution of our data. Second, Gevenois et al used 225 mAs …

PURPOSE: To compare subjective visual grading of pulmonary emphysema with
macroscopic morphometry and computed tomographic (CT) densitometry. MATERIALS AND …

… blinded to clinical outcome quantified PA clot load by using … accuracy of CT scoring systems
for PA clot load, and others have … The aim of our study was to retrospectively evaluate PA clot …

PURPOSE: To determine whether measurement of the relative area of lung with attenuation
coefficients lower than a certain threshold on thin-section computed tomographic (CT) scans …