Functional imaging for radiotherapy treatment planning: current status and future directions—a review
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Functional imaging for radiotherapy treatment planning: current status and future directions—a review
In recent years, radiotherapy (RT) has been subject to a number of technological innovations. Today, RT is extremely flexible, allowing irradiation of tumours with high doses, whilst also sparing normal tissues from doses. To make use of these additional degrees of freedom, integration of functional image information may play a key role (i) for better staging and tumour detection, (ii) for more...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Radiology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0007-1285,1748-880X
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20150056