The development and testing of a digital PET phantom for the evaluation of tumor volume segmentation techniques

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3331-3342

  Aristophanous, Michalis ^a   Penney, Bill C ^a   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital phantom; Positron emission tomography; Tumor volume segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGE TEXTURE; PHANTOMS; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TEXTURES; TUMORS;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DIGITAL PHANTOMS; IMAGE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; SEMI-AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; TUMOR VOLUMES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 46149124119     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2938518     Document Type: Article

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