PET evaluation of late cerebral effect in advanced radiation therapy techniques for cranial base tumors.

CONCLUSION: The present study support the safety of advanced radiation therapy techniques. 18F-FDG-PET, using SPM and semi-quantitative methods, might be a valuable tool to evaluate the cerebral radiotoxicity in patients treated for brain neoplasms. PMID: 29804540 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29804540?dopt=Abstract

Source: Current Radiopharmaceuticals - May 30, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Radiopharm Source Type: research