Inter- and intra-observer variation in soft-tissue sarcoma target definition

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 421-425

  Roberge, D ^a   Skamene, T ^a   Turcotte, R E ^a   Powell, T ^a   Saran, N ^a   Freeman, C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contouring; Inter observer variability; Radiotherapy; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGEON; TUMOR VOLUME;

CONTRAST MEDIA; GADOLINIUM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; PHYSICIANS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SARCOMA; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SOFTWARE; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 79961210181     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: 17696658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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