Prediction of Short-term Survival in Patients with Advanced Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Following Chemotherapy Based on 2-Deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-d-glucose-Positron Emission Tomography: A Feasibility Study

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[2] Morris DE(1991)The applications of PET in clinical oncology J Nucl Med 32 623-648

[3] Masters GA(1997)Requirements and implementations of a flexible kinetic modeling tool J Nucl Med 38 1818-1823

[4] Lilenbaum R(1998)A Java environment for medical image data analysis: initial application for brain PET quantitation Med Inform 23 207-214

[5] Strauss LG(1993)Determination of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy- J Neurosci Methods 50 263-272

[6] Conti PS(1991)-glucose rate constants in the anesthetized baboon brain with dynamic positron tomography J Nucl Med 32 1432-1438

[7] Burger C(2003)Noninvasive method to obtain input function for measuring glucose utilization of thoracic and abdominal organs World J Nucl Med 4 306-313

[8] Buck A(2006)On the fractal nature of positron emission tomography (PET) studies Hell J Nucl Med 9 10-21

[9] Mikolajczyk K(2003)Quantitative studies using positron emission tomography for the diagnosis and therapy planning in oncological patients J Clin Oncol 21 2651-2657

[10] Szabatin M(2006)Positron emission tomography in non-small-cell lung cancer: prediction of response to chemotherapy by quantitative assessment of glucose use Clin Cancer Res 12 6437-6443

[1] Socinski MA(2003)Chemotherapeutic management of stage IV non-small cell lung cancer Chest 123 226S-243S

[2] Morris DE(1991)The applications of PET in clinical oncology J Nucl Med 32 623-648

[3] Masters GA(1997)Requirements and implementations of a flexible kinetic modeling tool J Nucl Med 38 1818-1823

[4] Lilenbaum R(1998)A Java environment for medical image data analysis: initial application for brain PET quantitation Med Inform 23 207-214

[5] Strauss LG(1993)Determination of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy- J Neurosci Methods 50 263-272

[6] Conti PS(1991)-glucose rate constants in the anesthetized baboon brain with dynamic positron tomography J Nucl Med 32 1432-1438

[7] Burger C(2003)Noninvasive method to obtain input function for measuring glucose utilization of thoracic and abdominal organs World J Nucl Med 4 306-313

[8] Buck A(2006)On the fractal nature of positron emission tomography (PET) studies Hell J Nucl Med 9 10-21

[9] Mikolajczyk K(2003)Quantitative studies using positron emission tomography for the diagnosis and therapy planning in oncological patients J Clin Oncol 21 2651-2657

[10] Szabatin M(2006)Positron emission tomography in non-small-cell lung cancer: prediction of response to chemotherapy by quantitative assessment of glucose use Clin Cancer Res 12 6437-6443