Conformal radiotherapy for lung cancer: interobservers' variability in the definition of gross tumor volume between radiologists and radiotherapists

BACKGROUND: Conformal external radiotherapy aims to improve tumor control by boosting tumor dose, reducing morbidity and sparing healthy tissues. To meet this objective careful visualization of the tumor and adjacent areas is required. However, one of the major issues to be solved in this context is...

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Autores principales: Tyng, Chiang J, Chojniak, Rubens, Pinto, Paula NV, Borba, Marcelle A, Bitencourt, Almir GV, Fogaroli, Ricardo C, Castro, Douglas G, Novaes, Paulo E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19653915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-4-28

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732918/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19653915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-4-28

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