Defining radiotherapy target volumes using 18F-fluoro-deoxy- glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography: Still a pandora's box?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1555-1562

  Devic, Slobodan ^a   Tomic, Nada ^a   Faria, Sergio ^b   Menard, Sonia ^b   Lisbona, Robert ^c   Lehnert, Shirley ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

non small cell lung cancer; PET; Quantitative positron emission tomography; target delineation; thresholding

Indexed keywords

NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PET; POSITRON EMISSION; TARGET DELINEATION; THRESHOLDING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; GLUCOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONANCE; TUMORS;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG UPTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 78549231233     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.02.015     Document Type: Article

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