Inter-observer and intra-observer reliability for lung cancer target volume delineation in the 4D-CT era

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 166-171

  Louie, Alexander V ^a   Rodrigues, George ^a,b   Olsthoorn, Jason ^c   Palma, David ^d   Yu, Edward ^a   Yaremko, Brian ^a   Ahmad, Belal ^a   Aivas, Inge ^a   Gaede, Stewart ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

4D CT; Inter observer variability; Intra observer variability; Lung cancer; Target volume delineation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG TUMOR; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 77956629393     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.12.028     Document Type: Article

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