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SUBMITTER: Rahaghi FN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5110399 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov/Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rahaghi Farbod N FN Wells J Michael JM Come Carolyn E CE De La Bruere Isaac A IA Bhatt Surya P SP Ross James C JC Vegas-Sánchez-Ferrero Gonzalo G Diaz Alejandro A AA Minhas Jasleen J Dransfield Mark T MT San José Estépar Raúl R Washko George R GR
Journal of computer assisted tomography 20161101 6
<h4>Objective</h4>Prior work has described the relationship between pulmonary vascular pruning on computed tomography (CT) scans and metrics of right-sided heart dysfunction in smokers. In this analysis, we sought to look at pruning on a lobar level, as well as examine the effect of the arterial and venous circulation on this association.<h4>Methods</h4>Automated vessel segmentation applied to noncontrast CT scans from the COPDGene Study in 24 subjects with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging sca ...[more]