Pre-operative estimation of esophageal tumor metabolic length in FDG-PET images with surgical pathology confirmation

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 553-562

  Mamede, Marcelo ^a   Fakhri, Georges El ^a   Abreu E Lima, Paula ^a   Gandler, William ^b   Nosé, Vânia ^a   Gerbaudo, Victor H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; FDG; PET; PET CT; Tumor length; Tumor segmentation

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; METABOLISM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37349045963     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-007-0040-0     Document Type: Article

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