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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Mar 14;74(5):1335–1341. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.10.060

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Figure 1

Primary site and regional nodal metabolic tumor volume. Maximum intensity projection views of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography scans for two patients, with overlay of segmented metabolic tumor volumes (MTV). Figure 1a. Patient with Stage IVA oropharyngeal cancer (T3N2bM0) with small MTV (MTV: 63.3 ml, Progression free survival: 30.9 months). Figure 1b. A patient with Stage IVB (T4bN2cM0) oropharyngeal cancer with large MTV (MTV: 511.6 ml, Progression free survival: 13.8 months).