Improved tumor contrast and tumor delineation for stereotactic treatment planning of cerebral gliomas and metastases by contrast enhanced FLAIR (fluid attenuated inversion recovery) MR imaging;Verbesserter tumorkontrast und -abgrenzung in der stereotaktischen strahlentherapieplanung zerebraler gliome und metastasen mit kontrastmittelunterstutzter FLAIR-bildgebung

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 84-94

  Essig, Marco ^a,c   Debus, Jürgen ^b   Schlemmer, Heinz Peter ^a   Hawighorst, Hans ^a   Wannenmacher, Michael ^a   Van Kaick, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Forschungsschwerpunkt Radiol D   (Germany)

Author keywords

FLAIR imaging; Glioma; Magnetic resonance imaging; Metastases; Radiotherapy planning; Stereotaxie

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0033963457     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00002333     Document Type: Article

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