Course book Advanced Treatment Planning 2018

Summary

Radiation Oncology is being revolutionized by new technologies and those are crucially dependent on imaging

Prerequisites for changing concepts are a clinical need and the superiority of the new imaging to traditional methods and may vary significantly between tumors, tracers and clinical scenarios

To seriously show patients benefit by the use of new imaging modalities in different clinical situations, clinical trials are mandatory

Beyond target volume definition, other areas of the use of hybrid imaging in radiotherapy (response assessment, NT-monitoring …) are presently being investigated