… necessary for the proper treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). To understand …
effect of variation in background intensity on PET-based gross tumor volume (GTV) delineation…

… In any discussion regarding tumor volume delineation based on … in unpredictable background
activity with impact on visual … difficulty with PET based auto-contouring is the variability of …

… According to the results of this study, a PET-based GTV may be … an individualized “internal
tumour volume” needed to account for the expected physiologic movements and variations in …

… tumor volume and total glycolytic activity of the primary tumor … did not stratify our analysis by
individual stage but we performed … Variability of gross tumor volume delineation in head-and-…

… the examined FDG-PET based QIFs may have utility across … Non-small cell lung cancer
(NSCLC) results in more deaths … the primary gross tumor volume (GTV) contour delineated by …

… immediately surrounding the tumor can be used to delineate tumor volume [41]. Using this
… of tumor activity as there was a large variation of whole-body MTV within individual TNM …

… depend on precise tumor volume delineation, which, again, … techniques for determining
individual thresholds need to be … the change in volume from the CT-based and PET-based target …

… target volumes defined by PET alone ( 18 F-FDG PET-based … phases as a patient individualized
normalization factor to … have been tested previously, using metabolic tumor volumes …

… To account for the effects of tumor volume and background … , higher variation between
pathological and PET tumor volumes … PET-based delineation of tumour volumes in lung cancer: …

… The PET-based gross tumor target volumes were delineated … This investigation compared
the gross tumor volumes (GTVs) … of tumor motion for individualized internal target volumes? A …