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Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress

Radiotherapy plays an irreplaceable and unique role in treating thoracic tumors, but the occurrence of radiation-induced lung injury has limited the increase in tumor target doses and has influenced patients’ quality of life. However, the introduction of functional lung imaging has been incorporatin...

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Autores principales: Zhou, Pi-Xiao, Zhang, Shu-Xu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9544588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36212454
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.908345
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description Radiotherapy plays an irreplaceable and unique role in treating thoracic tumors, but the occurrence of radiation-induced lung injury has limited the increase in tumor target doses and has influenced patients’ quality of life. However, the introduction of functional lung imaging has been incorporating functional lungs into radiotherapy planning. The design of the functional lung protection plan, while meeting the target dose requirements and dose limitations of the organs at risk (OARs), minimizes the radiation dose to the functional lung, thus reducing the occurrence of radiation-induced lung injury. In this manuscript, we mainly reviewed the lung ventilation or/and perfusion functional imaging modalities, application, and progress, as well as the results based on the functional lung protection planning in thoracic tumors. In addition, we also discussed the problems that should be explored and further studied in the practical application based on functional lung radiotherapy planning.
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spelling pubmed-95445882022-10-08 Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress Zhou, Pi-Xiao Zhang, Shu-Xu Front Oncol Oncology Radiotherapy plays an irreplaceable and unique role in treating thoracic tumors, but the occurrence of radiation-induced lung injury has limited the increase in tumor target doses and has influenced patients’ quality of life. However, the introduction of functional lung imaging has been incorporating functional lungs into radiotherapy planning. The design of the functional lung protection plan, while meeting the target dose requirements and dose limitations of the organs at risk (OARs), minimizes the radiation dose to the functional lung, thus reducing the occurrence of radiation-induced lung injury. In this manuscript, we mainly reviewed the lung ventilation or/and perfusion functional imaging modalities, application, and progress, as well as the results based on the functional lung protection planning in thoracic tumors. In addition, we also discussed the problems that should be explored and further studied in the practical application based on functional lung radiotherapy planning. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9544588/ /pubmed/36212454 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2022.908345 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhou and Zhang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress
title Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress
title_full Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress
title_fullStr Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress
title_full_unstemmed Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress
title_short Functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: Application and progress
title_sort functional lung imaging in thoracic tumor radiotherapy: application and progress
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9544588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36212454
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