Techniques for human brain imaging have undergone rapid developments in recent years.
Technological progress has enabled the assessment of many physiological parameters in …

Conventional structural imaging provides limited information on tumor characterization and
prognosis. Advances in neurosurgical techniques, radiotherapy planning and novel drug …

Improvements of radionuclide and magnetic resonance-based imaging modalities over the
past decade have enabled clinicians to noninvasively assess the dynamics of disease …

Establishing the diagnosis of a brain tumour is not always a straightforward process. Many
non-neoplastic neurological diseases can mimic brain neoplasms on neuroimaging or on …

Neuroimaging plays a significant role in the diagnosis of intracranial tumors, especially brain
gliomas, and must consist of an assessment of location and extent of the tumor and of its …

Opinion statement With advances in treatments and survival of patients with glioblastoma
(GBM), it has become apparent that conventional imaging sequences have significant …

Standard MR imaging and CT are routinely used for anatomic diagnosis in brain tumors.
Pretherapy planning and posttreatment response assessments rely heavily on gadolinium …

MRI is routinely used for diagnosis, treatment planning and assessment of response to
therapy for patients with glioma. Gliomas are spatially heterogeneous and infiltrative lesions …

Non-invasive energy metabolism measurements in brain tumors in vivo are now performed
widely as molecular imaging by positron emission tomography. This capability has …

Metabolomics is the “systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific
cellular processes leave behind”, the study of their smallmolecule metabolite profiles. 1 …