title: The Role of Functional Imaging in Radiotherapy Planning and Management for Gynecologic Malignancies.
abstract: In addition to allowing much greater technical precision, the modern era allows investigation of target physiology and it is the potential incorporation of physiologic information into the treatment-planning rubric that gives modern PET-CT its allure and promise. Although oncologic PET scanning has been clinically available for more than 10 years, it is only recently that sufficient investigative and retrospective data have become available to confidently assert that future radiotherapy treatment planning will include functional imaging as an obligatory dimension of clinical characterization for most gynecologic tumors. This article explores the role of functional imaging in radiotherapy planning and management of gynecologic malignancies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University Medical Center, 4921 Parkview Place, St Louis, MO 63110, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Taussig Cancer Center, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Departments of Abdominal Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Center for PET and Molecular Imaging, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Shetal N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Center for PET and Molecular Imaging, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Shyam M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Srinivas
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Taussig Cancer Center, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
authors.forename: Roger M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Macklis