Measurement of absolute lung volumes by imaging techniques.

In this paper, the techniques available for estimating total lung capacities from standard chest radiographs in children and infants as well as adults are reviewed. These techniques include manual measurements using ellipsoid and planimetry techniques as well as computerized systems. Techniques are also available for making radiographic lung volume measurements from portable chest radiographs. There are inadequate data in the literature to support recommending one specific technique over another. Though measurements of lung volumes by radiographic, plethysmographic, gas dilution or washout techniques result in remarkably similar mean results when groups of normal subjects are tested, in patients with disease, the results of these different basic measurement techniques can differ significantly. Computed tomographic and magnetic resonance techniques can also be used to measure absolute lung volumes and offer the theoretical advantages that the results in individual subjects are less affected by variances of thoracic shape than are measurements made using conventional chest radiographs.

[1]  R. Johnson,et al.  Effect of pneumonectomy on the remaining lung in dogs. , 1991, Journal of applied physiology.

[2]  A Critical Appraisal of a Rapid Radiographic Method of Determining Total Lung Capacity , 1986, Scottish medical journal.

[3]  Computerized roentgenographic determination of total lung capacity. , 1976 .

[4]  C Nahmias,et al.  Automated in vivo quantification of emphysema. , 1993, Radiology.

[5]  A. Howseman,et al.  Estimation of lung volume in infants by echo planar imaging and total body plethysmography. , 1990, Archives of disease in childhood.

[6]  A. Schlesinger,et al.  Estimation of total lung capacity from chest radiography and chest CT in children: comparison with body plethysmography. , 1995, AJR. American journal of roentgenology.

[7]  K P Whittall,et al.  Quantification of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using computed tomography and histology. , 1997, American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine.

[8]  D. Altman,et al.  STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ASSESSING AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO METHODS OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT , 1986, The Lancet.

[9]  R. M. Peters,et al.  Estimation of the volume of lung below the left atrium using computed tomography , 1986, Critical care medicine.

[10]  K. Kilburn,et al.  Total lung capacity measured by roentgenograms. , 1971, The American journal of medicine.

[11]  S. String,et al.  Radiographie and Plethysmographie Determination of Total Lung Capacity1 , 1966 .

[12]  R. Crapo,et al.  Inspiratory lung volume achieved on routine chest films. , 1979, Investigative radiology.

[13]  R. Cutrera,et al.  Retrospective estimation of values for total lung capacity by plethysmography, helium gas dilution, and chest radiography in patients with cystic fibrosis. , 1988, Thorax.

[14]  K. Kilburn,et al.  Total lung capacity in asbestosis: a comparison of radiographic and body plethysmographic methods. , 1993, The American journal of the medical sciences.

[15]  R O Crapo,et al.  Pulmonary-function testing. , 1994, The New England journal of medicine.

[16]  B. Nickerson,et al.  A radiographic method for estimating lung volumes in sick infants , 1992, Pediatric pulmonology.

[17]  H. J. Barnhard,et al.  Roentgenographic determination of total lung capacity. A new method evaluated in health, emphysema and congestive heart failure. , 1960, The American journal of medicine.

[18]  D. Rodenstein,et al.  Reevaluation of the radiographic method for measurement of total lung capacity. , 1985, Bulletin europeen de physiopathologie respiratoire.

[19]  D M Denison,et al.  Estimation of lung volumes from chest radiographs using shape information. , 1979, Thorax.

[20]  P. Clayton,et al.  Computerized roentgenographic determination of total lung capacity. , 1976, The American review of respiratory disease.

[21]  P. Friedman,et al.  Measurement of lung volumes from supine portable chest radiographs. , 1979, Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology.

[22]  D M Shames,et al.  Radiographically determined lung volumes at full inspiration and during dynamic forced expiration in normal subjects. , 1975, Investigative radiology.

[23]  K. Kilburn,et al.  Predictive equations for total lung capacity and residual volume calculated from radiographs in a random sample of the Michigan population. , 1992, Thorax.

[24]  A. Bush,et al.  Use of different magnification factors to calculate radiological lung volumes. , 1986, Thorax.

[25]  R. Shephard,et al.  On the estimation of total lung capacity from chest X-rays. Radiographic and helium dilution estimates on children aged 10-12 years. , 1969, Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases.

[26]  C. Cann,et al.  Quantitative CT applications: comparison of current scanners. , 1987, Radiology.

[27]  A. B. Dubois,et al.  Radiographic and plethysmographic determination of total lung capacity. , 1966, Radiology.

[28]  G. Sallustio,et al.  High resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and new perspectives in functional radiology of the lung. , 1997, Rays.

[29]  P. Pratt,et al.  A method for the determination of total lung capacity from posteroanterior and lateral chest roentgenograms. , 1967, The American review of respiratory disease.