Tumor volume measurement errors of RECIST studied with ellipsoids

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2552-2557

  Levine, Zachary H ^a   Galloway, Benjamin R ^a,b   Peskin, Adele P ^a   Heussel, Claus P ^c   Chen, Joseph J ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

RECIST; tumor size; volumetric measurement; x ray imaging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; EVALUATION CRITERIA; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; RECIST; TUMOR SIZE; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENT; XRAY IMAGING;

TUMORS;

EID: 79959447966     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3577602     Document Type: Article

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