Does the imaging method have an influence on the measured tumor height in ruthenium plaque therapy of uveal melanoma?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 320-325

  Schueller, Patrick ^a,c   Dogan, Adnan ^a   Panke, Joan E ^b   Micke, Oliver ^a   Willich, Normann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Imaging; MRI; Ruthenium plaques; Ultrasound; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; UVEA MELANOMA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELANOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20044381126     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-005-1342-6     Document Type: Article

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