Dynamic threshold for radiation target volume by PET/CT [3]

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 849-

  Wong, Ching Yee Oliver ^a   Mahajan, Paresh ^a   Yan, Di ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; METABOLIC RATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NOTE; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250635981     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.106.038141     Document Type: Letter

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