Normal Lung Quantification in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Pattern: The Impact of Threshold-based Volumetric CT Analysis for the Staging of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Hirotsugu Ohkubo; Yoshihiro Kanemitsu; Takehiro Uemura; Osamu Takakuwa; Masaya Takemura; Ken Maeno; Yutaka Ito; Tetsuya Oguri; Nobutaka Kazawa; Ryuji Mikami; Akio Niimi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152505

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Normal Lung Quantification in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Pattern: The Impact of Threshold-based Volumetric CT Analysis for the Staging of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Hirotsugu Ohkubo ,

* E-mail: hohkubo@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Yoshihiro Kanemitsu,

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Takehiro Uemura,

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Osamu Takakuwa,

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Masaya Takemura,

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Ken Maeno,

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Yutaka Ito,

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Tetsuya Oguri,

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Nobutaka Kazawa,

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Ryuji Mikami,

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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Akio Niimi

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Normal Lung Quantification in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Pattern: The Impact of Threshold-based Volumetric CT Analysis for the Staging of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Hirotsugu Ohkubo,
Yoshihiro Kanemitsu,
Takehiro Uemura,
Osamu Takakuwa,
Masaya Takemura,
Ken Maeno,
Yutaka Ito,
Tetsuya Oguri,
Nobutaka Kazawa,
Ryuji Mikami

Published: March 31, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152505

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