Postoperative radiotherapy for glioma: improved delineation of the clinical target volume using the geodesic distance calculation.

OBJECTS: To introduce a new method for generating the clinical target volume (CTV) from gross tumor volume (GTV) using the geodesic distance calculation for glioma. METHODS: One glioblastoma patient was enrolled. The GTV and natural barriers were contoured on each slice of the computer tomography (C...

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Main Authors: DanFang Yan, SenXiang Yan, ZhongJie Lu, Cong Xie, Wei Chen, Xing Xu, Xinke Li, Haogang Yu, Xinli Zhu, LingYan Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4045722?pdf=render