The impact of optimal respiratory gating and image noise on evaluation of intratumor heterogeneity on 18F-FDG pet imaging of lung cancer

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1692-1698

  Grootjans, Willem ^a,b   Tixier, Florent ^b,c   Van Der Vos, Charlotte S ^b   Vriens, Dennis ^a   Le Rest, Catherine C ^c   Bussink, Johan ^b   Oyen, Wim J G ^d   De Geus Oei, Lioe Fee ^e   Visvikis, Dimitris ^f   Visser, Eric P ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET CT; Lung cancer; Radiomics; Respiratory gating; Total lesion glycolysis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIMAL RESPIRATORY GATING ALGORITHM; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY GATED IMAGING; SQUAMOUS CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; ARTIFACT; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84994895346     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: 2159662X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.116.173112     Document Type: Article

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