Open AccessDiagnostic support of radiosurgery at brain metastases
Author(s) -
Andrey Gryazov,
I. Dykan,
N. Kolotilov
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
radiation diagnostics, radiation therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2707-0700
pISSN - 2707-0697
DOI - 10.37336/2707-0700-2019-3-6
Subject(s) - radiosurgery , medicine , radiology , positron emission tomography , neuroimaging , magnetic resonance imaging , nuclear medicine , radiological weapon , medical physics , radiation therapy , psychiatry
The literature review covers 70 sources from 2001-2018. The informativeness of the main radiological neuroimaging technologies is described – magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT), single-photon emission computed tomography; positron emission computed tomography) in determining the early response to stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) of brain metastases, in predicting effective radiosurgery, volumetric regression, in assessing the state of diffusion processes and microcirculation (tissue perfusion) of irradiated foci.The diagnostic effectiveness of MRI and MDCT technologies in the differential diagnosis of metastastatic process in the brain recurrence, disease pseudoprogression, and radionecrosis after SRS is presented.An algorithm for the optimal diagnostic support of patients after SRS of brain metastases is described. The general medical phenomenon of the fundamental irreproducibility of cancer research results is indicated.