PET/CT in Radiotherapy Planning

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Chua, Sue (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Nuclear medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Medicine.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.