Academic Radiology
Volume 17, Issue 9 , Pages 1186-1189 , September 2010

Reproducibility of Forced Expiratory Tracheal Collapse: Assessment with MDCT in Healthy Volunteers

  • Phillip M. Boiselle, MD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Airway Imaging and the Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: P.M.B.
    • ,
  • Carl R. O'Donnell, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Airway Imaging and the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
    • ,
  • Stephen H. Loring, MD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Airway Imaging and the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215
    • ,
  • Alexander A. Bankier, MD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Airway Imaging and the Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215

Received 25 March 2010 ,Accepted 22 April 2010.

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 Supported by the National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute (R01HL084331).

PII: S1076-6332(10)00237-0

doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.04.016

Academic Radiology
Volume 17, Issue 9 , Pages 1186-1189 , September 2010

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