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HEAD AND NECK / NEUROLOGICAL COMMITTEE'S RESEARCH STRATEGY

Gregory Sorensen, MD, Chair
Massachusetts General Hospital

Specific objectives

 
  1. Develop and validate functional imaging markers of response to therapy for malignant glioma.
  2. Develop combined functional and anatomic imaging approaches to characterizing head and neck cancer to support targeted therapy.
 
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