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Recent Advances in Cancer Imaging as Applied to Radiotherapy

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Image-Guided Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer

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A century has passed since the discovery of X-rays by Roentgen and of radium by Curie. From those cradles, the use of radiation for disease diagnosis and treatment has steadily grown and expanded to become important branches of medicine, particularly for human cancers. As radiation sciences and their clinical application matured, subspecialties emerged, eventually resulting in diagnostic radiology and radiation oncology developing into distinct entities.

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  1. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Anthony V. D’Amico MD, PhD  & Jay R. Harris MD  & 

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Jay S. Loeffler MD

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Ling, C.C., Humm, J., Hricak, H., Koutcher, J. (2003). Recent Advances in Cancer Imaging as Applied to Radiotherapy. In: D’Amico, A.V., Loeffler, J.S., Harris, J.R. (eds) Image-Guided Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-422-1_9

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