Conference proceeding
High-resolution CT assessment of the pediatric airways: structure and function
Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.2168(1), pp.320-329
Medical Imaging 1994: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images
05/01/1994
DOI: 10.1117/12.174405
Abstract
The airway has always been a central focus for respiratory pathology in infants and children. Imaging of the larynx, trachea, and the central bronchi can be readily accomplished by radiographic or conventional CT techniques. Newer high resolution CT (HRCT) techniques have extended our view of the bronchi peripherally to the limits of scanner resolution, i.e., to bronchial generations 7 - 9, and rapid volumetric CT data acquisitions have made it possible to follow the same lung anatomic level through the rapidly occurring changes in a series of experimental protocols. These techniques together with a custom designed computer software program for image display and analysis have enabled us to objectively study changes in airway caliber and lung density that occurred in an animal mode of airway reactivity and thereby relate structure with function in the airways.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- High-resolution CT assessment of the pediatric airways: structure and function
- Creators
- Sandra S Kramer - Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaEric A Hoffman - University of IowaIsrael Amirav - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.2168(1), pp.320-329
- Conference
- Medical Imaging 1994: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional Images
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.174405
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- eISSN
- 1996-756X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/1994
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Radiology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984318690302771
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