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Review
. 2010 Sep;96(3):325-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.08.001. Epub 2010 Aug 20.

PET for radiation treatment planning of brain tumours

Anca-L Grosu  1 , Wolfgang A Weber
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Review

PET for radiation treatment planning of brain tumours

Anca-L Grosu et al. Radiother Oncol. 2010 Sep.

Abstract

AA-PET (MET-PET and FET-PET) can be used for gross tumour volume (GTV) delineation in brain gliomas and for the differentiation between treatment-related changes (pseudo-progression, pseudo-regression) and residual/recurrent tumour. There are some data showing that MET-PET and (DOTATOC)-PET can be used for GTV delineation in meningiomas and glomus tumours. The role of PET in the visualization of the biological characteristics of the tumours: proliferation (FLT-PET), hypoxia (FMISO-PET) and angiogenesis/peptide expression (RGD-PET) should be investigated in future studies.

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