Generating lung tumor internal target volumes from 4D-PET maximum intensity projections

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5732-5737

  Lamb, J M ^a   Robinson, C ^b   Bradley, J ^b   Laforest, R ^c   Dehdashti, F ^c   White, B M ^a   Wuenschel, S ^b   Low, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D PET; lung cancer; PET; radiotherapy treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; STATISTICS; TUMORS;

18-F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; LUNG CANCER; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; MAXIMUM STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET); RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ISRAEL TURKEY MENINGOENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

EID: 80053595915     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633896     Document Type: Article

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