Examples in the Literature for Virtual Bronchoscopy

Summers RM, Selbie WS, Malley JD, Pusanik LM, Dwyer AJ, Courcoutsakis NA, Shaw DJ, Kleiner DE, Sneller MC, Langford CA, Holland SM, Shelhamer JH. Polypoid lesions of airways: early experience with computer-assisted detection by using virtual bronchoscopy and surface curvature. Radiology 1998 Aug;208(2):331-7. Abstract.

Higgins WE, Ramaswamy K, Swift RD, McLennan G, Hoffman EA. Virtual bronchoscopy for three--dimensional pulmonary image assessment: state of the art and future needs. Radiographics 1998 May-Jun;18(3):761-78 Abstract.

Summers RM, Shaw DJ, Shelhamer JH. CT virtual bronchoscopy of simulated endobronchial lesions: effect of scanning, reconstruction, and display settings and potential pitfalls. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1998 Apr;170(4):947-50

Fleiter T, Merkle EM, Aschoff AJ, Lang G, Stein M, Gorich J, Liewald F, Rilinger N, Sokiranski R. Comparison of real-time virtual and fiberoptic bronchoscopy in patients with bronchial carcinoma: opportunities and limitations. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1997 Dec;169(6):1591-5. Abstract.

Ferretti G, Bricault I, Arbib F, Coulomb M. Virtual endoscopy of the bronchi. Rev Mal Respir 1997 Nov;14(5):415-7.

Summers RM. Navigational aids for real-time virtual bronchoscopy. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1997 May;168(5):1165-70.Abstract.

Ferretti GR, Knoplioch J, Bricault I, Brambilla C, Coulomb M. Central airway stenoses: preliminary results of spiral-CT-generated virtual bronchoscopy simulations in 29 patients. Eur Radiol 1997;7(6):854-9. Abstract.

Ferretti GR, Vining DJ, Knoplioch J, Coulomb M. Tracheobronchial tree: three-dimensional spiral CT with bronchoscopic perspective. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1996 Sep-Oct;20(5):777-81. Abstract.

Summers RM, Feng DH, Holland SM, Sneller MC, Shelhamer JH. Virtual bronchoscopy: segmentation method for real-time display.Radiology 1996 Sep;200(3):857-62. Abstract.

Vining DJ, Liu K, Choplin RH, Haponik EF. Virtual bronchoscopy. Relationships of virtual reality endobronchial simulations to actual bronchoscopic findings. Chest 1996 Feb;109(2):549-53. Abstract.

Buthiau D, Antoine E, Piette JC, Nizri D, Baldeyrou P, Khayat D. Virtual tracheo-bronchial endoscopy: educational and diagnostic value.Surg Radiol Anat 1996;18(2):125-31. Abstract.