Funktionelle Bildgebung für die biologisch adaptive Strahlentherapie

Current approaches to assess the tumour response in radiation oncology, which are predominantly based on morphological measurements of tumour size have substantial limitations, including the presence of small tumour residues that cannot be identified, poor measurement reproducibility, and groß tumour masses that persist following therapy, but may be biologically inactivated. Therefore, functional and molecular imaging, including the characterisation of biological parameters of the tumour is becoming an important means. However, until recently functional techniques have mostly been used in isolation, at best in s…