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Multimodality Imaging in Small Animal Radiotherapy

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For many decades, small animal radiation research was mostly performed using fairly crude experimental setups with radiation fields that did not conform to the desired target only. To enable more accurate irradiation in small animal research, recently, precision image-guided small animal radiation research platforms were developed. Similar to human planning systems, treatment planning on these micro-irradiators is based on computed tomography. However, in preclinical imaging, computed tomography is often hampered by low soft tissue contrast that makes it very challenging to localize targets in soft tissue regions. As a result, computed tomography on these radiation research platforms is more and more combined with other imaging modalities to improve target selection. These modalities include optical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and nuclear imaging techniques.

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Vanhove, C., Vandenberghe, S. (2019). Multimodality Imaging in Small Animal Radiotherapy. In: Kuntner-Hannes, C., Haemisch, Y. (eds) Image Fusion in Preclinical Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02973-9_10

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