Normative values for lung, bronchial sizes, and bronchus-artery ratios in chest CT scans: from infancy into young adulthood.

Journal: European radiology
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the developmental trends of quantitative parameters obtained from chest computed tomography (CT) and to provide normative values on dimensions of bronchi and arteries, as well as bronchus-artery (BA) ratios from preschool age to young adulthood.

Authors

  • Qianting Lv
    Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Erasmus Medical Centre - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Yuxin Chen
    School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
  • Daan Caudri
    Department of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Erasmus Medical Centre - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Eleni-Rosalina Andrinopoulou
    Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Wieying Kuo
    Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Jean-Paul Charbonnier
    From the Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Anatomy, Radboud University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, the Netherlands (N.L., C.I.S., L.H.B., M.B., E.C., W.M.v.E., P.K.G., B.G., M.G., N.H., W.H., H.J.H., C.J., R.K., M.K., K.v.L., J.M., M.O., R.S., C. Schaefer-Prokop, S.S., E.T.S., C. Sital, J.T., K.V.V., C.d.V., W.X., B.d.W., M.P., B.v.G.); Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (L.B.); Thirona, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (J.P.C., E.M.v.R.); Departments of Internal Medicine (T.D.) and Radiology (M.V.), Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands (H.A.G.); GROW School of Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht, the Netherlands (H.A.G.); Departments of Biomedical Physics and Engineering and Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (L.v.H., I.I.); Department of Radiology, Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, the Netherlands (J.K.); Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany (B.L.); Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Haaglanden Medical Center, The Hague, the Netherlands (T.v.R.V.); Department of Radiology, Meander Medical Center, Amersfoort, the Netherlands (C. Schaefer-Prokop, S.S.); and Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands (J.L.S.).
  • Robert J Fleck
    Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, US.
  • Luis Riera Soler
    Department of Pediatric Radiology, Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Matteo Paoletti
    Advanced Imaging and Radiomics Center, Neuroradiology Department, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
  • François Vermeulen
    Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; Department of Pediatrics, UZ Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
  • Giovanni Morana
    Neuroradiology Unit, A.O.U, Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy.
  • Edward Y Lee
    Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Marleen de Bruijne
  • Harm A W M Tiddens
    Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Pierluigi Ciet
    Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.