Deviations in delineated GTV caused by artefacts in 4DCT

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-66

  Persson, Gitte Fredberg ^a   Nygaard, Ditte Eklund ^a   Brink, Carsten ^b,c   Jahn, Jonas Westberg ^b   Munck af Rosenschöld, Per ^a   Specht, Lena ^a,d   Korreman, Stine Sofia ^a,e,f  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

4DCT; Artefacts; GTV; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ARTIFACTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MOTION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77953962041     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.04.019     Document Type: Article

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