Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 96, Issue 3 , Pages 335-338, September 2010

PET scans in radiotherapy planning of lung cancer☆

  • Dirk De Ruysscher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO Clinic), Maastricht University Medical Center, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO Clinic), GROW Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
    • ,
  • Carl-Martin Kirsch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg, Germany

Received 4 June 2010; received in revised form 7 July 2010; accepted 7 July 2010. published online 26 July 2010.

Abstract 

Especially for non-small cell lung cancer, FDG-PET has in the majority of the patients led to the safe decrease of radiotherapy volumes, enabling radiation-dose escalation and, experimentally, redistribution of radiation doses within the tumor. In limited-disease small cell lung cancer, the role of FDG-PET is emerging.

Keywords: Radiotherapy, PET, Lung cancer, Delineation, Target volumes

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☆ Guidelines for the use of PET in radiotherapy planning A. Chiti (EANM) and V. Grégoire (ESTRO).

PII: S0167-8140(10)00385-3

doi:10.1016/j.radonc.2010.07.002

Radiotherapy & Oncology
Volume 96, Issue 3 , Pages 335-338, September 2010

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