Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018

ITV: PET and breathing movements

Phantom measurements with moving spheres in ungated PET and CT

CT:

significant distortion

PET:

image similar to ideal capsular shape depicting sphere + motion

→ Possibility of exact imaging of 4-D-tumor volume

→ Reduction of risk for topographical miss from „snapshot“-CT

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