Pulmonary fissure integrity and collateral ventilation in COPD patients.

Pulmonary fissure integrity and collateral ventilation in COPD patients.

To investigate whether the integrity (completeness) of pulmonary fissures affects pulmonary function in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).A dataset consisting of 573 CT exams acquired on different subjects was collected from a COPD study. According to the global initiative f...

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Main Authors: Jiantao Pu, Zhimin Wang, Suicheng Gu, Carl Fuhrman, Joseph K Leader, Xin Meng, John Tedrow, Frank C Sciurba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4011857?pdf=render

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