FDG-PET-CT reduces the interobserver variability in rectal tumor delineation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 371-376

  Buijsen, Jeroen ^a   Van Den Bogaard, Jørgen ^a   Van Der Weide, Hiska ^a   Engelsman, Stephanie ^b   Van Stiphout, Ruud ^a   Janssen, Marco ^a   Beets, Geerard ^b   Beets Tan, Regina ^b   Lambin, Philippe ^a   Lammering, Guido ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic contouring; Contouring; Interobserver variation; PET CT; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM TUMOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857919314     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.12.016     Document Type: Article

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