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Computed tomography in diffuse lung disease: improving the image.

B Strickland·J Brennan·D M Denison
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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.

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B Strickland, J Brennan, D M Denison. 1986. Computed tomography in diffuse lung disease: improving the image.. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0009-9260(86)80265-3

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