A semi-automated technique determining the liver standardized uptake value reference for tumor delineation in FDG PET-CT.

18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) has been an essential modality in oncology. We propose a semi-automated algorithm to objectively determine liver standardized uptake value (SUV), which is used as a threshold for tumor delineation.A large spheri...

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Main Authors: Kenji Hirata, Kentaro Kobayashi, Koon-Pong Wong, Osamu Manabe, Andrew Surmak, Nagara Tamaki, Sung-Cheng Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4146536?pdf=render