Contribution of 18FDG PET-Scan in Tumour Volume Determination in Patients Operated of Breast Cancer
The use of positron emission tomography (PET) in determination of functional tumour volume
may pose two major problems especially for the exact delineation of tumour contours:
- Respiratory movements, when the tumour is thoracic, may induce an overestimation
- The PET's low spatial resolution, linked to the emission of photons
The usual method to define tumour contours result of three types of delineation usually
used: the visual contouring, the segmentation based on an activity threshold fixed, and the
segmentation with adaptive thresholding.
Observational
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective
Pierre VERA, PhD
Principal Investigator
Centre H.Becquerel
France: Institutional Ethical Committee
CHB 09.01
NCT01621529
February 2010
May 2012
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