Functional Imaging in Oncology

Part I. Clinical and Therapeutic Approach to Functional Oncological Imaging

1. Cancer Biology: What’s Important for Imaging
José L. Vercher-Conejero, Zhenghong Lee, Pablo R. Ros

2. Imaging Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Oncology Clinical Trials
Richard G. Abramson, Thomas E. Yankeelov

3. Role of Molecular Imaging in the Era of Personalized Medicine: A Review
Evis Sala, Hebert Alberto Vargas, Olivio F. Donati, Wolfgang A. Weber, Hedvig Hricak

4. Radiotherapy and Imaging
Ursula Nestle, Anca-Ligia Grosu

5. New Therapies and Functional-Molecular Imaging
Roberto García-Figueiras, Anwar R. Padhani

6. Medical Image Computing for Oncology: Review and Clinical Examples
Zhong Xue, Stephen T. C. Wong

Part II. Imaging of Cancer Hallmarks

7. Imaging Angiogenesis
Alan Jackson, James P. B. O’Connor

8. Imaging of Tumor Metabolism: MR Spectroscopy
Asif Rizwan, Kristine Glunde

9. Imaging of Tumour Metabolism: 18-FDG PET
Michael Lin, Divesh Kumar

10. Imaging of Tumor Metabolism: PET with Other Metabolites
Chi-Lai Ho, Sirong Chen, Man-Ki Cheung

11. Current Clinical Imaging of Hypoxia with PET and Future Perspectives
Mareike Roscher, Carmen Wängler, Stefan O. Schönberg, Björn Wängler

12. MRI Hypoxia Measurements
Stefanie Remmele, Ralph P. Mason, James P. B. O’Connor

Part III. Functional Imaging Techniques in Clinical Use

13. Overview of Functional MR, CT, and US Imaging Techniques in Clinical Use
Ewelina Kluza, Doenja M. J. Lambregts, Regina G. H. Beets-Tan

14. Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging
Henry H. Tam, Dow-Mu Koh

15. Perfusion CT: Principles, Technical Aspects and Applications in Oncology
Olwen Westerland, Vicky Goh

16. Perfusion Imaging by Magnetic Resonance
Javier Sánchez González, Antonio Luna, L. Celso Hygino Cruz

17. DCE-US: Evaluation of Angiogenesis
Nathalie Lassau

18. Spectroscopy of Cancer
Natalie J. Serkova

19. Hybrid Imaging: PET-CT and PET-MRI
Barbara Malene Fischer, Johan Löfgren

20. Dual-Energy and Spectral Energy Computed Tomography: Oncological Body Applications in Clinical Use
Alvin C. Silva, Wendy Z. Stiles

21. US Elastography: Applications in Tumors
Richard G. Barr

Part IV. Molecular Imaging Techniques in Clinical Use and in Research

22. New Molecular and Functional Imaging Techniques
Vanessa Gómez-Vallejo, María Jiménez-González, Jordi Llop, Torsten Reese

23. Multiparametric Imaging
Luis Martí-Bonmatí, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri, Gracián García-Martí, Roberto Sanz-Requena

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Imaging / Radiology, Oncology, Diagnostic Radiology