PET/CT in cancer: Moderate sample sizes may suffice to justify replacement of a regional gold standard

Molecular Imaging and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 381-385

  Gerke, Oke ^a,b   Poulsen, Mads Hvid ^a   Bouchelouche, Kirsten ^a   Høilund Carlsen, Poul Flemming ^a   Vach, Werner ^b  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer; PET CT; Sample size; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 70350263674     PISSN: 15361632     EISSN: 18602002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11307-009-0224-1     Document Type: Article

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