Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 479-482 , December 2009

Comparison between CT- and FDG-PET-defined target volumes for radiotherapy planning in head-and-neck cancers

  • Bénédicte Henriques de Figueiredo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine; and
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Radiotherapy, Institut Bergonié, 229, cours de l’Argonne, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France.
    • ,
  • Olivier Barret

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine; and
    • ,
  • Hélène Demeaux

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Oncology and Radiation Oncology, CHRU Bordeaux, France
    • ,
  • Philippe Lagarde

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
    • ,
  • Erwan De-Mones-Del-Pujol

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oto-rhino-laryngology, CHRU Bordeaux, France
    • ,
  • Guy Kantor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
    • ,
  • Henri de Clermont-Gallerande

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine; and
    • ,
  • Pierre Richaud

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Institut Bergonié, Bordeaux, France
    • ,
  • Philippe Fernandez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine; and

Received 28 June 2009 ,Revised 25 September 2009 ,Accepted 29 September 2009.

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PII: S0167-8140(09)00558-1

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.09.010

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 479-482 , December 2009

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