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Evaluation of a metal artifact reduction technique in tonsillar cancer delineation

Jonathan A. Abelson, MD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
James D. Murphy, MD, MS
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Ellen A. Wiegner, MD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Deborah Abelson, MD
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
David N. Sandman, MD
- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California
F. Edward Boas, MD, PhD
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Dimitre Hristov, PhD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Dominik Fleischmann, MD
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Megan E. Daly, MD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Daniel T. Chang, MD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Billy W. Loo Jr, MD, PhD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Wendy Hara, MD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Quynh-Thu Le, MD
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Corresponding author. Department of Radiation Oncology, 875 Blake Wilbur Dr, Stanford, CA 94305.

Received 20 April 2011 ,Revised 27 May 2011 ,Accepted 1 June 2011.

Examples of 3 patients with tonsillar cancer, before and after artifact correction with the metal deletion technique (MDT). For each case, corresponding axial images are presented from native uncorrec

Examples of 3 patients with tonsillar cancer, before and after artifact correction with the metal deletion technique (MDT). For each case, corresponding axial images are presented from native uncorrected computed tomographic (CT) and MDT corrected CT.
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Conflicts of interest: This work was partially supported by an investigator initiated research grant from Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA. A patent application covering the Metal Deletion Technique has been submitted. No licensing or other revenue has been generated by this invention, owned by Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

PII: S1879-8500(11)00169-X

doi: 10.1016/j.prro.2011.06.004

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