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PET and MRI Guided Irradiation of a Glioblastoma Rat Model Using a Micro-irradiator
Published on: December 28, 2017
[Benefits of functional imaging in radiotherapy]
1Département de médecine nucléaire, centre de lutte contre le cancer Henri-Becquerel, 1, rue d'Amiens, 76000 Rouen, France; FR CNRS 3638, laboratoire QuantIF (EA4108-Litis), rue d'Amiens, 76000 Rouen, France.
Abstract:
Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is interesting to optimize radiotherapy planning, and probably to perform dose redistribution in many cancers. However, in 2015, fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET is validated only for therapy planning for lung cancer. The interest of dose painting, PET in non-lung cancers, the interest of other tracers (even PET hypoxia tracers), DW-MRI, and PET-MR for radiotherapy needs to be demonstrated in prospective multicentric phase III studies on large series of patients.
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