Inter-observer Variability of Prostate Delineation on Cone Beam Computerised Tomography Images

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-38

  White, E A ^a   Brock, K K ^a,b   Jaffray, D A ^a,b   Catton, C N ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cone beam computerised tomography; image guidance; image recognition; organ delineation; prostate radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STAFF TRAINING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58149147173     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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