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Yo-Liang Lai1, Chun-Yi Wu2, K S Clifford Chao3
1Department of Radiation Oncology, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Radiation therapy is one of the most effective tools for cancer treatment. In recent years, intensity-modulated radiation therapy has become increasingly popular in that target dose-escalation can be done while sparing adjacent normal tissues. For this reason, the development of measures to pave the way for accurate target delineation is of great interest. With the integration of functional information obtained by biological imaging with radiotherapy, strategies using advanced biological imaging to visualize metabolic pathways and to improve therapeutic index and predict treatment response are discussed in this article.
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