Journal of Capital Medical University ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 880-885.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-7795.2022.06.010

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Advances about molecular imaging of nuclear medicine in diagnosis and treatment of glioma

Xu Yang, Wang Kai, Chen Qiang, Ai Lin*   

  1. Department of nuclear medicine, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100070, China
  • Received:2022-09-30 Online:2022-12-21 Published:2022-11-30
  • Contact: *E-mail:ailin@bjtth.org

Abstract: Glioma is one of the most common intracranial tumors, and the prognosis of patients is usually poor.Conventional structural imaging offers insufficient information, by contrast the rapid development of molecular imaging, especially molecular imaging of nuclear medicine, provides a unique perspective to understand the biological characteristics of glioma, and further enhances physicians' understanding of glioma.This paper reviewed the advances of molecular imaging of nuclear medicine in the diagnosis, preoperative grading, judgment of molecular events, efficacy evaluation and prediction of prognosis of glioma in recent years.

Key words: molecular imaging, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), glioma

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