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High-quality diagnostics of female pelvic malignancies is of particular importance for the selection of an appropriate treatment strategy as well as to predict prognosis.

In this context, advanced imaging techniques have gained an increasing role within the last decades for therapy planning and disease monitoring. In particular, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) represent two important imaging techniques, which are frequently applied for primary tumor evaluation as well as the identification of potential tumor relapse. Furthermore, these imaging modalities enable the acquisition of certain functional and metabolic quantitative datasets, representing different aspects of underlying tumor biology, which facilitates a more comprehensive assessment of specific organs and pathologies. Accordingly, this chapter describes the diagnostic benefits and potential clinical application fields of integrated PET/MRI for the evaluation of gynecological cancers.

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