Area under the cumulative SUV-volume histogram is not a viable metric of intratumoral metabolic heterogeneity

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 967-968

  Brooks, Frank J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

CUMULATIVE STANDARD UPTAKE VALUE HISTOGRAM; HISTOGRAM; LETTER; NEOPLASM; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SHADE; TUMOR VOLUME; ALGORITHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DEVICES; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84891722132     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-013-2381-3     Document Type: Letter

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