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Head and neck cancers comprise about 5% of all cancers worldwide. Because of the complex normal head and neck anatomy, which is further altered after surgical or radiation treatment, PET imaging of glycolysis has contributed to the diagnostic work-up of these patients. However, physiological muscle activity, vocal cord and normal thyroid activity can render the interpretation of molecular images difficult. PET/CT has helped to overcome some of these difficulties and it was this indication for which the usefulness of PET/CT was first tested and established using the prototype PET/CT at the University of Pittsburg.
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Czernin, J., Dahlbom, M., Ratib, O., Schiepers, C. (2004). Cancers of the Head and Neck. In: Atlas of PET/CT Imaging in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18517-5_11
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