International Classification of HRCT for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kusaka, Yukinori (Editor), Hering, Kurt G. (Editor), Parker, John E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Tokyo, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Occupational medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine.

Many international experts collaborated in creating this groundbreaking work, a principal-coding system, and in developing reference films and imaging parameters for the International Classification of HRCT for Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases. The book is an authoritative guide t...

Table of Contents:

• Classification System
• A Glossary of HRCT Terms
• Coding CT-Classification in Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Disease (OERD)
• Technical Aspects and Imaging Parameters in HRCT
• Practice and Study Protocol
• Radiation Exposure and Risk Assessment in HRCT
• Application of the International Classification of HRCT for the Occupational Lung Diseases
• ILO International Classifications of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses — Past, Present and Future —
• CT Images
• Pleural Diseases
• Parenchymal Changes of CT Imaging
• Radiological and Pathological Correlation of Autopsied Cases of Pneumoconioses.