Computed tomography in diffuse lung disease: improving the image.
Diffuse lung disease is often a difficult clinical and radiographic problem to resolve. Standard computed tomography (CT) techniques are often unhelpful. By combining practical physiological criteria with narrow section CT a protocol has been developed which yields more accurate information and is now the standard method of CT investigation of diffuse lung disease in our department.
D001987:Bronchiectasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008271:Mycetoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011187:Posture; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012119:Respiration; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*