Quantitative assessment of inter-observer variability in target volume delineation on stereotactic radiotherapy treatment for pituitary adenoma and meningioma near optic tract

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yamazaki, Hideya ^a,b   Shiomi, Hiroya ^b,h   Tsubokura, Takuji ^a,b   Kodani, Naohiro ^a,b   Nishimura, Takuya ^a,b   Aibe, Norihiro ^a,b   Udono, Hiroki ^c   Nishikata, Manabu ^d   Baba, Yoshimi ^e   Ogita, Mikio ^f   Yamashita, Koichi ^g   Kotsuma, Tadayuki ^h  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Soseikai General Hospital   (Japan)

^c Tobata Kyoritsu Hospital   (Japan)

^d Toyama Cyber Knife Center   (Japan)

^e OKAYAMA KYOKUTO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Fujimoto Hayasuzu Hospital   (Japan)

^g Tokyo CyberKnife Center   (Japan)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYBERKNIFE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; IRRADIATION; MALE; OPTIC TRACT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADENOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; MENINGIOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; PATHOLOGY; RADIOSURGERY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADENOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; ORGANS AT RISK; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TUMOR BURDEN; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79251564908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-10     Document Type: Article

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