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From: Concordance of FDG PET/CT metabolic tumour volume versus DW-MRI functional tumour volume with T2-weighted anatomical tumour volume in cervical cancer

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MTV was calculated by the thresholding method on FDG PET/CT. Focal activity in the uterine cervix was identified. A VOI was inserted manually, carefully avoiding the urinary bladder. SUVmax was quantified by the software automatically. The tumour was outlined as the region encompassed by a given fixed percent intensity level relative to the maximum activity in the tumour. 20% to 80% thresholds of the SUVmax (MTV20 to MTV80) at intervals of 5% were used in this study. MTV: metabolic tumour volume; VOI: volume of interest; SUVmax: maximum standardized uptake value

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