PET/CT in Radiotherapy Planning

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Chua, Sue (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesClinicians' Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging
Subjects
Medicine.
Nuclear medicine.
Radiotherapy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319547442
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-54744-2
Physical DescriptionXVI, 78 p. 18 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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