Evaluation of the role of 18FDG-PET/CT in radiotherapy target definition in patients with head and neck cancer.

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: As techniques for radiotherapy delivery have developed, increasingly accurate localisation of disease is demanded. Functional imaging, particularly PET and its fusion with anatomical modalities, such as PET/CT, promises to improve detection and characterisation of disease. This study evaluated the impact of (18)FDG-PET/CT on radiotherapy target volume definition in head and neck cancer (HNC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: The PET/CT scans of patients with HNC were used in a ...

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Authors: Newbold, K; Partridge, M; Cook, G; Sharma, B; Rhys-Evans, P

• Journal: Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 1229-1236
• Publication date: 2008-01-01
• DOI: 10.1080/02841860802256483
• EISSN: 1651-226X
• ISSN: 0284-186X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Positron-Emission Tomography; Male; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Aged; Neoplasms, Unknown Primary; Adult; Head and Neck Neoplasms; Middle Aged; Tumor Burden; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Neoplasm Staging; Humans; Lymphatic Metastasis