First intraindividual comparison of contrast-enhanced MRI, FET- and DOTATOC- PET in patients with intracranial meningiomas

First intraindividual comparison of contrast-enhanced MRI, FET- and DOTATOC- PET in patients with intracranial meningiomas

Abstract Background For irradiation treatment planning of meningiomas the use of PET-scans is well established. The most frequently used tracers are either based on amino acids or the somatostatin receptor ligand DOTATOC. Since up to now no inter-institutionally accepted standard PET-tracer has been...

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Main Authors: Jan Oliver Dittmar, Clemens Kratochwil, Anne Dittmar, Thomas Welzel, Daniel Habermehl, Stefan Rieken, Frederik L. Giesel, Uwe Haberkorn, Jürgen Debus, Stephanie E. Combs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-11-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Meningioma
PET
DOTATOC
FET
Radiation therapy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-017-0913-x

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