Marc-André Weber, Marcus Henze, Jochen Tüttenberg, Bram Stieltjes, Marco Meissner, Fabian Zimmer, Iris Burkholder, Alexander Kroll, Stephanie E Combs, Marlies Vogt-Schaden, Frederik L Giesel, Saida Zoubaa, Uwe Haberkorn, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Marco Essig
OBJECTIVE: Because of the heterogeneous nature of glioma, biopsies performed should be targeted at the most anaplastic region. Several functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron emission tomography (PET) techniques have been proposed for identifying the most anaplastic tumor area. However, it is unclear whether the recommended biopsy targets based on these various functional imaging modalities correspond with each other. Thus, the purpose was to evaluate whether they identify similar target areas...
December 2010: Investigative Radiology