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SUBMITTER: Pritchett MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7212155 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pritchett Michael A MA Bhadra Krish K Calcutt Mike M Folch Erik E
Journal of thoracic disease 20200401 4
Guided bronchoscopy offers a minimally invasive and safe method for accessing indeterminate pulmonary nodules. However, all current guided bronchoscopy systems rely on a preprocedural computed tomography (CT) scan to create a virtual map of the patient's airways. Changes in lung anatomy between the preprocedural CT scan and the bronchoscopy procedure can lead to a divergence between the expected and actual location of the target lesion. Termed "CT-to-body divergence", this effect reduces diagnos ...[more]