Virtual 3-D 18F-FDG PET/CT panendoscopy for assessment of the upper airways of head and neck cancer patients: A feasibility study

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1435-1440

  Buchbender, Christian ^a,b   Treffert, Jon ^c   Lehnerdt, Götz ^b   Mattheis, Stefan ^b   Geiger, Bernhard ^d   Bockisch, Andreas ^b   Forsting, Michael ^b   Antoch, Gerald ^a   Heusner, Till A ^a,b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Siemens Health Care   (United States)

^d SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Panendoscopy; PET CT; Squamous cell carcinoma; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LARYNX TUMOR; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; MOUTH TUMOR; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PANENDOSCOPY; PHARYNX TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84865616388     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2152-6     Document Type: Article

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