Semiautomatic technique for defining the internal gross tumor volume of lung tumors close to liver/spleen cupola by 4D-CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4572-4576

  Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Sghedoni, Roberto ^b   Bettinardi, Valentino ^c   Aquilina, Mark Anthony ^c   Navarria, Piera ^a   Cattaneo, Giovanni Mauro ^c   Di Muzio, Nadia ^c   Cozzi, Luca ^d   Scorsetti, Marta ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

internal gross tumor volume IGTV; internal target volume ITV; lung node, radiotherapy RT; maximum intensity projection MIP

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CUPOLAS; DOMES; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL (4D) CT; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; INTERNAL TARGET VOLUME; LUNG NODE, RADIOTHERAPY-RT; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; PHANTOM STUDIES; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; SEMIAUTOMATIC TECHNIQUES;

TUMORS;

ISRAEL TURKEY MENINGOENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIVER; LUNG NEOPLASMS; SPLEEN; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77956303369     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3471379     Document Type: Article

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