%0 Journal Article
%T Current Methods to Define Metabolic Tumor Volume in Positron Emission Tomography: Which One is Better?
%A Hyung-Jun Im
%A Meiyappan Solaiyappan
%A Steve Y. Cho
%A Tyler Bradshaw
%J Archive of "Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging".
%D 2018
%R 10.1007/s13139-017-0493-6
%X Overestimation of MTV by a fixed absolute threshold. A patient with melanoma had a metabolically active soft tissue metastasis in left peritoneal space with SUVmax of 80.8. Tumor segmentation using a threshold of SUV 2.5 resulted in overestimation of the tumor volume because of spillover effect of FDG PET image. Red volume of interest indicates MTV using threshold of SUV 2.
%K Metabolic tumor volume
%K 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose
%K Positron emission tomography
%K Tumor
%K Segmentation
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5777960/