An evaluation of an automated 4D-CT contour propagation tool to define an internal gross tumour volume for lung cancer radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 322-328

  Gaede, Stewart ^a,b   Olsthoorn, Jason ^c   Louie, Alexander V ^a   Palma, David ^a,b   Yu, Edward ^a,b   Yaremko, Brian ^a,b   Ahmad, Belal ^a,b   Chen, Jeff ^a,b   Bzdusek, Karl ^d   Rodrigues, George ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

4D CT; Auto propagation; Inter physician variability; Intra physician variability; Lung cancer; Target volume delineation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CANCER STAGING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 81755173529     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.08.036     Document Type: Article

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