Main description:

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 to the recognition of dust diseases of the lung, using radiological imaging techniques, with special emphasis on high-resolution computerized tomography (CT). The classification is a powerful, essential tool for recording patient data on CT in a globally standardized semiquantitative way. The system is also applicable to surveillance and screening for occupational and environmental respiratory diseases. The book is a valuable resource not only for radiologists but for all who work in occupational medicine and public health.

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.