Correlation of multimodal 18F-DOPA PET and conventional MRI with treatment response and survival in children with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas
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- 1 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ivyspring International Publisher in Theranostics
- Vol. 10 (26) , 11881-11891
Abstract
To evaluate the contribution of 18F-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) PET in association with conventional MRI in predicting treatment response and survival outcome of pediatric patients with diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs).Keywords
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