PET imaging for the quantification of biologically heterogeneous tumours: Measuring the effect of relative position on image-based quantification of dose-painting targets

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2789-2806

  McCall, Keisha C ^a   Barbee, David L ^a   Kissick, Michael W ^a   Jeraj, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS MEDIUM; AXIAL DIRECTION; AXIAL POSITIONS; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; CONTRAST RECOVERY; ERROR VALUES; EXPECTATION VALUES; HEAD AND NECK; HIGH CONTRAST; IMAGE INTENSITIES; IMAGE-BASED; METHOD OF IMAGES; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PET IMAGES; PET IMAGING; PHANTOM STUDIES; POSITIONING ERROR; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RADIOACTIVITY CONCENTRATION; RANDOM SET-UP ERRORS; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE POSITIONS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIMULATION STUDIES; SMALL OBJECTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TARGET DELINEATION; TUMOURS;

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; METAL RECOVERY; RANDOM ERRORS; SET THEORY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPHERES; TARGETS; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; UNCERTAINTY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCERTAINTY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 77951821429     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/10/001     Document Type: Article

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