Molecular & Diagnostic Imaging in Prostate Cancer Clinical Applications and Treatment Strategies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schatten, Heide (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1126
• Subjects: Cell cycle.; Molecular biology.; Cancer research.; Urology.; Radiology.; Cell Cycle Analysis.; Molecular Medicine.; Cancer Research.; Diagnostic Radiology.

The second of two companion books which address the biology and clinical aspects of prostate cancer. This volume, Prostate Cancer: Molecular & Diagnostic Imaging and Treatment Stategies, discusses both classic and the most recent imaging approaches for detection, early diagnosis and treatment of...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The role of imaging in clinical prostate cancer - Overview of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), MR spectroscopic Imaging (MRSI), Photoacoustic Imaging (PAI)
• 2. Automated quantitative cell and tissue imaging technologies
• 3. Diagnostic and early prostate cancer imaging; imaging of advanced prostate cancer
• 4. Emerging radiation techniques
• 5. Radiation therapy and partial prostate irradiation
• 6. Prostate cancer screening: radiology perspectives
• 7. Preclinical imaging of metastasis and dormancy: clinical implications
• 8. Utility of CT in the management of prostate cancer
• 9. Nanotechnology, cancer diagnosis and treatments
• 10. Imaging approaches to distinguish lethal from non-lethal disease
• 11. Photoacoustic imaging
• 12. Molecular and anatomical imaging in drug development
• 13. Molecular imaging modalities including CT, PET, SPECT, MRI, MRS, Hyperpolarized MRI, Ultrasound, X-ray computed tomography, Fusion Imaging (Molecular/Anatomic)
• 14. Functional imaging (PET vs. SPECT)
• 15. Optical bioluminescence molecular imaging
• 16. Therapeutic radiopharmaceutical translational research imaging
• 17. Accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging for local staging of prostate cancer: diagnostic meta-analysis
• 18. Adjuvant radiotherapy for pathologically advanced prostate cancer: randomized clinical trial
• 19. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) with histopathological analysis
• 20. Image-directed, tissue-preserving focal therapy of prostate cancer with a novel deformable magnetic resonance-ultrasound (MR-US) registration system
• 21. Focal therapy for localized unifocal and multifocal prostate cancer
• 22. Focal cryotherapy for clinically unilateral, low to intermediate risk prostate cancer
• 23. Impact of obesity on clinico-pathologic outcomes after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy
• 24. Body mass index, prostate weight and transrectal ultrasound prostate volume accuracy.