Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a significant advance in cancer imaging with great
potential for optimizing radiation therapy (RT) treatment planning and thereby improving …

Lung cancer (LC) still represents one of the most common tumours in both women and men.
PET/CT is a whole-body non-invasive imaging procedure that has been increasingly used …

PET with 18F-FDG (18F-FDG PET) is increasingly used in the definition of target volumes for
radiotherapy, especially in patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this context …

The value of positron emission tomography using [18F]-fluoro-deoxy-glucose (FDG-PET) for
pretherapeutic evaluation of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is beyond …

In radiation therapy (RT), staging, treatment planning, monitoring and evaluation of
response are traditionally based on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance …

In the last hundred years, lung cancer has risen from a reportable disease to the most
common cause of death from cancer in both men and women in developed countries (1) …

Purpose An easily applicable algorithm for the FDG-PET-based delineation of tumour
volumes for the radiotherapy of lung cancer was developed by phantom measurements and …

Qualitätsindikatoren wurden durch Sens et al. wie folgt definiert:„Ein Indikator ist ein
quantitatives Maß, welches zum Monitoring und zur Bewertung der Qualität wichtiger …

Purpose The differentiation of recurrent lung cancer and post-therapeutic changes remains
a problem for radiological imaging, but FDG-PET allows biological characterisation of …

Aim: Currently, the German and Austrian S3 guidelines on the evaluation and treatment of
lung cancer are about to be published whereas the American Colleague of Chest …