Radiotherapy treatment planning for patients with non-small cell lung cancer using positron emission tomography (PET)

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-60

  Erdi, Yusuf E ^a   Rosenzweig, Kenneth ^a   Erdi, Alev K ^a   Macapinlac, Homer A ^b   Hu, Yu Chi ^a   Braban, Louise E ^a   Humm, John L ^a   Squire, Olivia D ^a   Chui, Chen Shou ^a   Larson, Steven M ^a   Yorke, Ellen D ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Positron emission tomography; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION INJURY; SPINAL CORD; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0036161956     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00470-4     Document Type: Article

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