A prospective study to evaluate the intra-individual reproducibility of bone scans for quantitative assessment in patients with metastatic prostate cancer

A prospective study to evaluate the intra-individual reproducibility of bone scans for quantitative assessment in patients with metastatic prostate cancer

Abstract Background The Bone Scan Index (BSI) is used to quantitatively assess the total tumour burden in bone scans of patients with metastatic prostate cancer. The clinical utility of BSI has recently been validated as a prognostic imaging biomarker. However, the clinical utility of the on-treatme...

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Main Authors: Mariana Reza, Reza Kaboteh, May Sadik, Anders Bjartell, Per Wollmer, Elin Trägårdh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Imaging
Subjects:
Reproducibility
Prostate cancer
Bone metastasis
Bone scan quantitative analysis
Bone scan index
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12880-018-0257-5

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