Practical Radiation Oncology
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 27-34 , January 2012

Evaluation of a metal artifact reduction technique in tonsillar cancer delineation

  • Jonathan A. Abelson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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  • James D. Murphy, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Ellen A. Wiegner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Deborah Abelson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • David N. Sandman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California
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  • F. Edward Boas, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Dimitre Hristov, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Dominik Fleischmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Megan E. Daly, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Daniel T. Chang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Billy W. Loo Jr, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Wendy Hara, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • ,
  • Quynh-Thu Le, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiation Oncology, 875 Blake Wilbur Dr, Stanford, CA 94305.

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

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 Note: An online CME test for this article can be taken at http://astro.org/MOC.

 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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