PET/CT in Radiotherapy Planning

✍ Scribed by Sue Chua (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 84
• Series: Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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, gynecological, and pediatric tumors. Helpful information is also presented on the practical implementation of PET/CT in routine oncological practice. Technical and logistical issues are discussed, and guidance provided on potential problems and pitfalls and available solutions. The book will be invaluable in assisting readers to exploit PET/CT’s ability to significantly improve delineation of tumor tissue through the addition of metabolic information to structural imaging data, thereby avoiding unnecessary radiation injury and associated complications while enhancing therapeutic effects and minimizing the risk of marginal recurrences. It is published within the Springer series Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging, compiled under the auspices of the British Nuclear Medicine Society.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Instrumentation....Pages 13-16
Patient Preparation....Pages 17-22
Data Acquisition, Reconstruction and Transfer....Pages 23-27
Sources of Artefacts: Consequences and Solutions....Pages 29-32
Advantages and Limitations....Pages 33-38
4D PET/CT Respiratory Gated Acquisition Techniques....Pages 39-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Lung Cancer....Pages 45-50
Head and Neck Cancers....Pages 51-55
GI Malignancy....Pages 57-61
Prostate Cancer....Pages 63-66
Gynaecological Cancers....Pages 67-71
Paediatric Tumours....Pages 73-76
Back Matter....Pages 77-78

✦ Subjects

Nuclear Medicine;Radiotherapy