Assessment of various strategies for 18F-FET PET-guided delineation of target volumes in high-grade glioma patients

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 182-193

  Vees, Hansjörg ^a   Senthamizhchelvan, Srinivasan ^a   Miralbell, Raymond ^a   Weber, Damien C ^a   Ratib, Osman ^a   Zaidi, Habib ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

18F FET; Gross tumor volume; High grade glioma; Image segmentation; PET CT

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; FLUOROETHYLTYROSINE F 18; GADOLINIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; O (2 FLUOROETHYL)TYROSINE; O-(2-FLUOROETHYL)TYROSINE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; TUMOR BURDEN; TYROSINE;

EID: 58849127328     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-008-0943-6     Document Type: Article

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