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Functional imaging enhances brachytherapy by improving disease staging, patient selection, and treatment planning. Further research is needed to fully integrate these advanced imaging techniques into clinical practice.

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Background:

Brachytherapy is a crucial cancer treatment modality.
Functional imaging offers insights into biological properties relevant to cancer management.
Current integration of functional imaging in brachytherapy is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To review the current integration of functional imaging in brachytherapy.
To explore the future potential of functional imaging in brachytherapy.
To identify challenges in clinical implementation.

Main Methods:

Literature review of functional imaging applications in brachytherapy.
Analysis of functional imaging's role in staging, treatment planning, and follow-up.
Discussion of potential biomarkers and dose-painting strategies.

Main Results:

Functional imaging aids in disease staging and patient selection for brachytherapy.
It can improve target volume definition and enable dose escalation via dose-painting.
Functional imaging is valuable for assessing treatment response during follow-up.

Conclusions:

Functional imaging holds significant promise for optimizing brachytherapy.
Further research is required to overcome challenges for widespread clinical adoption.
Key areas for development include biomarker validation and dose-painting implementation.