Can images obtained with high field strength magnetic resonance imaging reduce contouring variability of the prostate?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 728-734

  Usmani, Nawaid ^a,b   Sloboda, Ron ^a,b   Kamal, Wafa ^a   Ghosh, Sunita ^a,b   Pervez, Nadeem ^a,b   Pedersen, John ^a,b   Yee, Don ^a,b   Danielson, Brita ^a,b   Murtha, Albert ^a,b   Amanie, John ^a,b   Monajemi, Tara ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

computed tomography; contouring variability; magnetic resonance imaging; Prostate brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTOURING VARIABILITY; CT IMAGE; HIGH FIELD; IMAGE SETS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MAGNETIC STRENGTH; MR IMAGES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROSTATE VOLUME; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; RANDOM SUBSETS; TIME POINTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; RESONANCE; TOMOGRAPHY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTOURING VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ONCOLOGY; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79957552144     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.03.019     Document Type: Article

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