Antonio Luna • Joan C. Vilanova
L. Celso Hygino da Cruz Jr.
Santiago E. Rossi
Editors

2014

Biophysical Basis and Technical
Approaches – Volume 1

In the last decades, comprehensive cancer care and research have both been critically dependent on imaging. The role of anatomical imaging with ultrasound, CT and MRI has grown progressively in the last decades. In this manner, the application of medical imaging to cancer patients has expanded from diagnosis and staging to screening, guide of treatment, therapeutic monitoring, detection of recurrence and prediction of treatment response. This change in the role of imaging has been due in part to the introduction of functional imaging with PET at the end of the last century, and posteriorly with other techniques such as advanced MRI sequences.