Original Article
Assessment of lung tumor response by perfusion CT
Author:
E Coche
Department of Medical Imaging, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Brussels, Belgium, BE
Abstract
Perfusion CT permits evaluation of lung cancer angiogenesis and response to therapy by demonstrating alterations in lung tumor vascularity. It is advocated that perfusion CT performed shortly after initiating therapy may provide a better evaluation of physiological changes rather than the conventional size assessment obtained with RECIST. The radiation dose,the volume of contrast medium delivered to the patient and the reproducibility of blood flow parameters remain an issue for this type of investigation.
Published on
01 May 2013.
Peer Reviewed
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