Research Article

Time to Exhale: Additional Value of Expiratory Chest CT in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Table 2

Lung function parameters.

ParameterMeanSDRange

VC (%)7023.322.2–128.6
FEV1 (%)49.420.816.1–100.4
FEV1%VC53.41332.7–90.9
RV (%)210.981.935.3–405.7
TLC (%)12531.654.4–205
RV%TLC6514.816.4–87.6
sRtot (%)337.424147.8–1054.8

VC: vital capacity; FEV1: forced expiratory volume in one second; FEV1%VC: Tiffeneau index; RV: residual volume; TLC: total lung capacity; sRtot: specific total airway resistance.