Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

, volume 52 , issue 1 , pages 5-15

Current Methods to Define Metabolic Tumor Volume in Positron Emission Tomography: Which One is Better?

Hyung-Jun Im ^{1, 2}

Tyler Bradshaw ¹

Meiyappan Solaiyappan ³

Steve Y. Cho ^{1, 3, 4}

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Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, USA |

Department of Transdisciplinary Studies, Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |

Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA |

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University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, Madison, USA |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2017-09-19

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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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ISSN: 18693474, 18693482

DOI: 10.1007/s13139-017-0493-6

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PubMed ID: 29391907

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging

Abstract

Numerous methods to segment tumors using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) have been introduced. Metabolic tumor volume (MTV) refers to the metabolically active volume of the tumor segmented using FDG PET, and has been shown to be useful in predicting patient outcome and in assessing treatment response. Also, tumor segmentation using FDG PET has useful applications in radiotherapy treatment planning. Despite extensive research on MTV showing promising results, MTV is not used in standard clinical practice yet, mainly because there is no consensus on the optimal method to segment tumors in FDG PET images. In this review, we discuss currently available methods to measure MTV using FDG PET, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the methods.

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