PET-guided delineation of radiation therapy treatment volumes: A survey of image segmentation techniques

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2165-2187

  Zaidi, Habib ^a   El Naqa, Issam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

PET; Radiation therapy; Segmentation; Treatment planning; Validation

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOLINIUM;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958456514     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-010-1423-3     Document Type: Review

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