Molecular Imaging 2017

PET/CT and RT in Esophageal cancer

Accurate delineation and irradiation of the GTV is a prerequisite for a successful treatment of esophageal cancer with radiotherapy.

Adequate tumour delineation is often hampered by the poor discriminative value of CT and the inability to relate ultrasound information to CT images.

Addition of PET/CT information may improve the accuracy in the delineation process, especially for IMRT.

Muijs et al. Rad Onc, 2010