The use of ionizing radiation for cancer treatment has undergone extraordinary development
during the past hundred years. The advancement of medical imaging has been critical in …

Personalized medicine is the new driving force in the modern era of medicine. In oncology,
personalized management of a patient's disease means the application of specific …

External beam radiation therapy procedures have, until recently, been planned almost
exclusively using anatomic imaging methods. Molecular imaging using hybrid positron …

Purpose Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) has become a
critical tool in clinical oncology with an expanding role in guiding radiation treatment …

Radiomics is a recent area of research in precision medicine and is based on the extraction
of a large variety of features from medical images. In the field of radiation oncology …

The role of positron emission tomography (PET) during the past decade has evolved rapidly
from that of a pure research tool to a methodology of enormous clinical potential. 18F …

State-of-the art radiotherapy (RT) techniques have become extremely flexible. As a
consequence, highly conformal target doses in combination with optimal organ-at-risk …

Molecular imaging plays a central role in the management of radiation oncology patients.
Specific uses of imaging, particularly to plan radiotherapy and assess its efficacy, require an …

Imaging has an essential role in the planning and delivery of radiotherapy. Recent advances
in imaging have led to the development of advanced radiotherapy techniques—including …

PET/CT imaging has rapidly emerged as an important imaging tool in oncology. The
success of PET/CT imaging is based on several features. First, patients benefit from a …