PET/CT in Radiotherapy Planning

This pocket book offers a succinct but comprehensive overview of the role of PET/CT in radiotherapy planning. Individual chapters are devoted to specific application of the technique to particular tumor types, including non-small cell lung, gastrointestinal, head and neck squamous cell, prostate, gy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Chua, Sue (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2017.
Colección:Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging.
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Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Radiotherapy planning in oncology: science and practice
  • Part I PET/CT in radiotherapy planning: Instrumentation
  • Patient preparation and setup
  • Data acquisition, reconstruction and transfer
  • Sources of artifacts: consequences and solutions
  • Advantages and limitations
  • 4D-PET/CT respiratory gated acquisition techniques
  • Part II PET/CT in radiotherapy planning: current evidence: Lung cancer
  • Head and neck Cancers
  • Gastrointestinal Malignancies
  • Prostate cancer
  • Gynaecological Cancers
  • Paediatric Cancers.