Advances in neuro-oncology imaging

KJ Langen, N Galldiks, E Hattingen… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Despite the fact that MRI has evolved to become the standard method for diagnosis and
monitoring of patients with brain tumours, conventional MRI sequences have two key …

Amino acid PET in neurooncology

N Galldiks, P Lohmann, GR Fink… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Soc Nuclear Med
For decades, several amino acid PET tracers have been used to optimize diagnostics in
patients with brain tumors. In clinical routine, the most important clinical indications for amino …

German guidelines for brain tumour imaging by PET and SPECT using labelled amino acids

KJ Langen, P Bartenstein, H Boecker… - Nuklearmedizin …, 2011 - europepmc.org
For the primary diagnosis of brain tumours, morphological imaging by means of magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) is the current method of choice. The complementary use of …

What does PET imaging bring to neuro-oncology in 2022? a review

JT Zhang-Yin, A Girard, M Bertaux - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is increasingly used to
supplement MRI in the management of patient with brain tumors. In this article, we provide a …

From the clinician's point of view-What is the status quo of positron emission tomography in patients with brain tumors?

N Galldiks, KJ Langen, WB Pope - Neuro-oncology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The most common type of primary brain tumor is malignant glioma. Despite intensive
therapeutic efforts, the majority of these neoplasms remain incurable. Imaging techniques …

[HTML][HTML] The use of amino acid PET and conventional MRI for monitoring of brain tumor therapy

N Galldiks, I Law, WB Pope, J Arbizu, KJ Langen - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2017 - Elsevier
Routine diagnostics and treatment monitoring of brain tumors is usually based on contrast-
enhanced MRI. However, the capacity of conventional MRI to differentiate tumor tissue from …

Clinical applications of PET in brain tumors

W Chen - Journal of nuclear medicine, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
Malignant gliomas and metastatic tumors are the most common brain tumors. Neuroimaging
plays a significant role clinically. In low-grade tumors, neuroimaging is needed to evaluate …

PET imaging in neuro-oncology: An update and overview of a rapidly growing area

A Verger, A Kas, J Darcourt, E Guedj - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Positron emission tomography (PET) is a functional imaging technique
which plays an increasingly important role in the management of brain tumors. Owing …

Non-invasive grading of brain tumours using dynamic amino acid PET imaging : does it work for 11C-Methionine?

G Moulin-Romsée, E D'Hondt, T de Groot… - European journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Background Static imaging of amino acids does not allow differentiation of low versus high
grade brain tumours. It has been shown that dynamic imaging of the amino acid analogue …

Comparison of amino acid positron emission tomographic radiotracers for molecular imaging of primary and metastatic brain tumors

C Juhász, S Dwivedi, DO Kamson… - Molecular …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) is an imaging technology that can detect and
characterize tumors based on their molecular and biochemical properties, such as altered …