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Advantages and Limitations

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PET/CT in Radiotherapy Planning

Part of the book series: Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging ((PET/CT))

Abstract

CT alone has conventionally informed radiotherapy planning. It provides anatomical information for delineation and electron density for dose calculation. Integrating PET-CT for radiotherapy planning offers the opportunity to individualize treatment and improve patient outcome. PET-CT’s molecular insight of tumour biology could facilitate a move away from ‘one-size-fits-all’ prescription to more accurate personalized radiotherapy [1].

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge NHS funding to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Cancer and to Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

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  1. The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Downs Road, Sutton, SM2 5PT, Surrey, UK

    Shaista Hafeez & Robert Huddart

  2. The Institute of Cancer Research, 123 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3RP, UK

    Shaista Hafeez & Robert Huddart

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Correspondence to Shaista Hafeez .

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom

    Sue Chua

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Hafeez, S., Huddart, R. (2017). Advantages and Limitations. In: Chua, S. (eds) PET/CT in Radiotherapy Planning . Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54744-2_6

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