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Review
. 2021 Sep;59(5):773-788.
doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2021.05.005.

PET Imaging for Head and Neck Cancers

Charles Marcus  1 , Sara Sheikhbahaei  2 , Veeresh Kumar N Shivamurthy  3 , Greg Avey  4 , Rathan M Subramaniam  5
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PET Imaging for Head and Neck Cancers

Charles Marcus et al. Radiol Clin North Am. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Head and neck cancers are commonly encountered cancers in clinical practice in the United States. Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT has been clinically applied in staging, occult primary tumor detection, treatment planning, response assessment, follow-up, recurrent disease detection, and prognosis prediction in these patients. Alternative PET tracers remain investigational and can provide additional valuable information such as radioresistant tumor hypoxia. The recent introduction of 18F-FDG PET/MR imaging has provided the advantage of combining the superior soft tissue resolution of MR imaging with the functional information provided by 18F-FDG PET. This article is a concise review of recent advances in PET imaging in head and neck cancer.

Keywords: FDG PET; Head and neck cancer; Neoplasm; PET/CT; Staging.

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