© 1999 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 9, 759-760,
May 5, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Cancer Imaging: Changing Focus in the 21st Century
As the 21st century approaches, cancer imaging is undergoing an image shift of its own from diagnostic tool to one in which imaging is used increasingly to guide treatment outcomes. As this shift occurs, however, many state-of-the-art imaging devices that were perfected in the late 1980s and early 1990s are not yet giving researchers the quality they want or need.
Will combining various machines and technologies for optimal composite images make a difference, or are even newer and more inventive devices required? The answers are often site-specific.
At a recent meeting on nuclear imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New
York, nearly 200 experts tried to
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