Amino Acid PET - An Imaging Option to Identify Treatment Response, Posttherapeutic Effects and Tumor Recurrence?

Routine diagnostics and treatment monitoring in patients with primary and secondary brain tumors is usually based on contrast-enhanced standard MRI. However, the capacity of standard MRI to differentiate neoplastic tissue from non-specific posttreatment effects may be limited particularly after ther...

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Main Authors: Norbert Galldiks, Karl-Josef Langen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2016.00120/full