Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 96, Issue 3 , Pages 277-279 , September 2010

Clinical use of PET-CT data for radiotherapy planning: What are we looking for?

  • Arturo Chiti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Margarita Kirienko

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy
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  • Vincent Grégoire

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, St-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

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PII: S0167-8140(10)00448-2

doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.07.021

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 96, Issue 3 , Pages 277-279 , September 2010

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