Image-guided cancer diagnosis and treatment

Author: Li Yan
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The book Imaging-Guided Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment introduces both advanced imaging technologies and provides an outlook on the future development of this field. It clearly identifies the new trends in the development of imaging, making it a gold-standard practical guide for imaging in prostate, breast, and central nervous system tumors. The book covers the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of prostate cancer, breast cancer, and central nervous system tumors under imaging guidance; introduces the use of transrectal ultrasound and MRI for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer; presents imaging techniques for assessing chemotherapy response and outlining temperature change maps; describes techniques for tumor and functional abnormality resection guided by MPI; and is the first to comprehensively summarize minimally invasive treatments for cancer guided by imaging. It also introduces molecular imaging that reflects gene expression.