Global and regional degree of obstruction determined by electrical impedance tomography in patients with obstructive ventilatory defect.

BACKGROUND:Electrical impedance tomography is a continuous imaging method capable of measuring lung volume changes. The purpose of this study was to examine whether EIT was capable of evaluating the degree of obstructive ventilatory defect (OVD) on the global and regional level. METHODS:41 healthy s...

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Main Authors: Chao Zhang, Meng Dai, Wei Liu, Xiaohui Bai, Jiaming Wu, Canhua Xu, Junying Xia, Feng Fu, Xuetao Shi, Xiuzhen Dong, Faguang Jin, Fusheng You
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209473