Improvement of Internal Tumor Volumes of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients for Radiation Treatment Planning Using Interpolated Average CT in PET/CT

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yao Ching ^a   Tseng, Hsun Lin ^b   Lin, Yang Hsien ^b   Kao, Chia Hung ^a   Huang, Wei Chien ^b   Huang, Tzung Chi ^b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNAL TUMOR VOLUME; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARDIZED UPTAKE VALUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR MOTION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84877835255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064665     Document Type: Article

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