In the new era of functional and molecular imaging, both currently available imaging biomarkers and biomarkers under development are expected to lead to major changes in the management of oncological patients. This book is a practical manual on the various imaging techniques capable of delivering functional information on cancer, including diffusion MRI, CT and MRI perfusion imaging, dual-energy CT, spectroscopy, imaging of hypoxia, and PET and other nuclear medicine studies. Applications of these techniques in a wide range of tumor types are explained in detail. The most appropriate ways to acquire and manage functional imaging data for common malignancies are reviewed, and due attention is paid to the analysis of information obtained with imaging biomarkers using a multiparametric approach. Numerous high-quality illustrations help to highlight the major teaching points.

Clinical and therapeutic approach to functional oncological imaging: Cancer biology: What's important for imaging

Imaging biomarkers in oncology as surrogate endpoints in clinical trials
Role of functional-molecular imaging in oncology
Radiotherapy and imaging
New therapies and functional-molecular imaging
Bioinformatics for cancer imaging. Imaging of cancer hallmarks: Imaging of angiogenesis
Imaging of tumor metabolism: MR spectroscopy
Imaging of tumor metabolism: 18-FDG PET
Imaging of tumor metabolism: PET with other metabolites
Imaging of hypoxia on PET
Imaging of hypoxia on MRI. Functional imaging techniques in clinical use: Functional imaging in assessing and monitoring of treatment response
Diffusion-weighted MR imaging
Perfusion CT
Perfusion MRI
DCE-US: Evaluation of angiogenesis
Spectroscopy in cancer
Hybrid imaging: PET-CT and PET-MRI
Dual and spectral energy CT: oncological applications
US elastography: applications in tumors. Molecular imaging techniques in clinical use and in research: New molecular and functional imaging techniques
Multiparametric imaging.