Advanced Brachytherapy Physics - Vienna 2016

Further improvement with functional imaging?

Study on tumor volume regression FDG-PET imaging for the assessment of physiologic volume response during radiotherapy in cervix cancer. Lin LL, Yang Z, Mutic S et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 May 1;65(1):177-81. Treatment planning studies Sequential FDG-PET brachytherapy treatment planning in carcinoma of the cervix Lin LL, Mutic S, Malyapa RS et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2005 Dec 1;63(5):1494-501

Figure from: Lin LL et al. IJROBP 2006