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In the future, emission‐guided radiation therapy will play a critical role in clinical radiation oncology
Author(s) -
Keall Paul,
Kron Tomas,
Zaidi Habib
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1002/mp.13408
Subject(s) - radiation oncology , medical physics , radiation therapy , medicine , radiobiology , radiology
Emission-guided radiation therapy entails the use of radiation emitted by molecular imaging probes (SPECT for PET) to guide delivery directly, thus avoiding the need to wait for long acquisition times to collect sufficient count statistics. The potential of biological targeting in radiation treatment planning, taking advantage of advanced molecular imaging techniques in the form of hybrid SPECT/CT, PET/CT or PET/MRI systems, is well established. The last three decades have witnessed abundant contributions indicative of the advantages of multiparametric molecular imaging in this framework. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.