Clinical utility of 4D FDG-PET/CT scans in radiation treatment planning

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Aristophanous, Michalis ^a   Berbeco, Ross I ^a   Killoran, Joseph H ^a   Yap, Jeffrey T ^a   Sher, David J ^a   Allen, Aaron M ^a   Larson, Elysia ^a   Chen, Aileen B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

4D PET CT; Biological target volume; Lung cancer; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

4D PET/CT; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; CLINICAL UTILITY; CONSTANT THRESHOLD; FDG-PET; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PET SCAN; RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUES; THREE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR MOTION; TUMOR VOLUMES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG HILUS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 83955164303     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.12.060     Document Type: Article

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