The advances of clinical application of PET/CT in head and neck carcinoma

VernacularTitle:PET/CT显像在头颈部肿瘤中的临床应用进展
Author: Yingying ZHENG
Keywords: Head and neck carcinoma; PET/CT; The advances of clinical application
From: China Oncology 2017;27(6):425-431
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Head and neck carcinoma (HNC) is one of the common malignancies in the world. Because of its deep location and complicated surroundings, patients usually receive definitive radiotherapy or concurrent chemoradio-therapy. Early prediction has significant importance to guide physicians in making treatment decisions. Traditional im-aging techniques have obvious limitations. However, positron emission tomography (PET), as a non-invasive functional imaging, allows quantitative assessment of many biologic processes before the anatomic changes, such as proliferation, apoptosis and hypoxia. PET/CT is more and more widely used in HNC nowadays. This article reviewed the advances of clinical application of PET/CT in HNC in this paper