Advances in Neuro-Oncology Imaging Techniques

Imaging in neuro-oncology

Imaging plays several key roles in managing brain tumors, including diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment response assessment. Ongoing challenges remain as new therapies emerge and there are urgent needs to find accurate and clinically feasible methods to noninvasively evaluate brain tumors before and after treatment. This review aims to provide an overview of several advanced imaging modalities ...

Advances in translational research in neuro-oncology.

During the last decade, we have witnessed several key advances in the field of neuro-oncology. First, there were conceptual advances in the molecular and cell biology of malignant gliomas including the discovery in 2004 of brain tumor stem cells. Second, the Cancer Genome Atlas project has been extremely useful in the discovery of new molecular markers, including mutations in the IDH1 gene, and...

Editorial: Psychosocial Advances in Neuro-Oncology

Neuro-oncology is a complex field encompassing scientific and clinical developments in the diagnosis and management of cancers directly affecting the central nervous system (CNS). These include brain tumors and metastases, and non-CNS cancers and treatments that produce neurocognitive impairment. To date, the dominant focus of neuro-oncology literature has been on the biological mechanisms and ...

Magnetic resonance perfusion imaging in neuro-oncology

Recent advances in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have seen the development of techniques that allow quantitative imaging of a number of anatomical and physiological descriptors. These techniques have been increasingly applied to cancer imaging where they can provide some insight into tumour microvascular structure and physiology. This review details technical approaches and application of qu...

Optical Biochemical Imaging: Potential New Applications in Neuro-Oncology