1. 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/Computed Tomography for Primary Brain Tumors
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Peter Grupe, Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen, Søren Hess, and Eivind Antonsen Segtnan
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PET-CT ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Radiation ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Tumor biology ,business.industry ,Computed tomography ,Therapy planning ,General Medicine ,Mr imaging ,Fluorodeoxyglucose PET ,Medicine ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Radiology ,Primary Brain Tumors ,business ,Structural imaging - Abstract
Structural imaging with computed tomography (CT) and MR imaging is the mainstay in primary diagnosis of primary brain tumors, but these modalities depend on morphologic appearance and an intact blood-brain barrier, and important aspects of tumor biology are not addressed. Such issues may be alleviated by (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET and FDG-PET/CT imaging, which may provide clinically important information with regard to primary differentiation between tumor types, initial staging and risk stratification, therapy planning, response evaluation, and recurrence detection. This article describes some of the potential contemporary applications of FDG and PET in primary brain tumors.
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- 2015
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