Meanings
- not comparableExcessively aerated.
The chest is slightly hyperaerated so that the cardiomegaly present appears to be real.
1982, Michael J. Kelley, Cardiac Imaging in Infants and Children, page 511 more example
The following HU-ranges were used to obtain the masses of differently aerated lung compartments, which were calculated as percentage of M total : nonaerated (atelectasis, -100 to +100 HU), poorly aerated (-101 to -500 HU); normally aerated (-501 to -900 HU) and hyperaerated (-901 to -1,000 HU).
2015 August 11, “Correlation of Lung Collapse and Gas Exchange - A Computer Tomographic Study in Sheep and Pigs with Atelectasis in Otherwise Normal Lungs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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