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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Radiol. 2009 Mar 5;16(6):718–725. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.12.003

Table 2.

Measures of Ventilation Heterogeneity

Stepwise Linear Regression R2 HFOV CV
Y 0.028 ± 0.03 0.294 ± 0.12
Y/Z 0.040 ± 0.02 0.296 ± 0.12
Y/Z/S 0.042 ± 0.02 0.298 ± 0.12
means±SD for R2; n=5 HFOV, n=4 CV. Y, height; S, side (left vs. right); Z, coronal location (apex-base).
Coefficients of Variation HFOV CV
Total: COVt 0.41 ± 0.06 0.46 ± 0.12
Other: COVi 0.40 ± 0.06 0.38 ± 0.12
Y only: COVy 0.09 ± 0.03 0.25 ± 0.04*

means±SD; n=5 HFOV, n=4 CV. Y, dorsal-ventral (vertical) height

*

p<0.01 HFOV vs. CV