Hybrid PET-CT simulation for radiation treatment planning in head-and-neck cancers: A brief technical report

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1419-1424

  Heron, Dwight E ^a,c   Andrade, Regiane S ^a   Flickinger, John ^a   Johnson, Jonas ^a   Agarwala, Sanjiv S ^b   Wu, Andrew ^a   Kalnicki, Shalom ^a   Avril, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FDG; head and neck cancer; Hybrid PET CT; radiation simulation

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL NODAL REGION (ABDC); ABNORMAL NODAL REGION OF PRIMARIES (ABNP); FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE (FDG); GROSS TUMOR VOLUMES (GTV);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE; ONCOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 10044234010     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.05.037     Document Type: Article

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