Assessment of tumour size in PET/CT lung cancer studies: PET- and CT-based methods compared to pathology
Open Access
- 3 October 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in EJNMMI Research
- Vol. 2 (1) , 56
- https://doi.org/10.1186/2191-219x-2-56
Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) may be useful for defining the gross tumour volume for radiation treatment planning and for response monitoring of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. The purpose of this study was to compare tumour sizes obtained from CT- and various more commonly available PET-based tumour delineation methods to pathology findings.Keywords
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