Assessment of 18F PET signals for automatic target volume definition in radiotherapy treatment planning

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-50

  Davis, J Bernard ^a   Reiner, Beatrice ^a   Huser, Marius ^a,b   Burger, Cyrill ^a   Székely, Gábor ^b   Ciernik, I Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic 3D delineation of PET images; FDG PET; Functional imaging based radiotherapy planning; PET CT derived target volume definition; Segmentation of PET signals; Threshold definition

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VALIDATION STUDY; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTISCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AUTOMATION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746991225     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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