Response assessment of bevacizumab in patients with recurrent malignant glioma using [18F]Fluoroethyl-l-tyrosine PET in comparison to MRI

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-33

  Galldiks, Norbert ^a,b   Rapp, Marion ^c   Stoffels, Gabriele ^a,d   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b   Shah, Nadim J ^a,d   Coenen, Heinz H ^a,d   Sabel, Michael ^c   Langen, Karl Josef ^a,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Julich Aachen Research Alliance JARA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amino acid PET; Anti VEGF treatment; Kinetic analysis; Metabolic response; RANO criteria

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; IRINOTECAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYROSINE;

EID: 84873599039     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-012-2251-4     Document Type: Article

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