TY - JOUR
T1 - An overview of PET/MR, focused on clinical applications
AU - Catalano, Onofrio Antonio
AU - Masch, William Roger
AU - Catana, Ciprian
AU - Mahmood, Umar
AU - Sahani, Dushyant Vasudeo
AU - Gee, Michael Stanley
AU - Menezes, Leon
AU - Soricelli, Andrea
AU - Salvatore, Marco
AU - Gervais, Debra
AU - Rosen, Bruce Robert
PY - 2016/9/13
Y1 - 2016/9/13
N2 - Hybrid PET/MR scanners are innovative imaging devices that simultaneously or sequentially acquire and fuse anatomical and functional data from magnetic resonance (MR) with metabolic information from positron emission tomography (PET) (Delso et al. in J Nucl Med 52:1914–1922, 2011; Zaidi et al. in Phys Med Biol 56:3091–3106, 2011). Hybrid PET/MR scanners have the potential to greatly impact not only on medical research but also, and more importantly, on patient management. Although their clinical applications are still under investigation, the increased worldwide availability of PET/MR scanners, and the growing published literature are important determinants in their rising utilization for primarily clinical applications. In this manuscript, we provide a summary of the physical features of PET/MR, including its limitations, which are most relevant to clinical PET/MR implementation and to interpretation. Thereafter, we discuss the most important current and emergent clinical applications of such hybrid technology in the abdomen and pelvis, both in the field of oncologic and non-oncologic imaging, and we provide, when possible, a comparison with clinically consolidated imaging techniques, like for example PET/CT.
AB - Hybrid PET/MR scanners are innovative imaging devices that simultaneously or sequentially acquire and fuse anatomical and functional data from magnetic resonance (MR) with metabolic information from positron emission tomography (PET) (Delso et al. in J Nucl Med 52:1914–1922, 2011; Zaidi et al. in Phys Med Biol 56:3091–3106, 2011). Hybrid PET/MR scanners have the potential to greatly impact not only on medical research but also, and more importantly, on patient management. Although their clinical applications are still under investigation, the increased worldwide availability of PET/MR scanners, and the growing published literature are important determinants in their rising utilization for primarily clinical applications. In this manuscript, we provide a summary of the physical features of PET/MR, including its limitations, which are most relevant to clinical PET/MR implementation and to interpretation. Thereafter, we discuss the most important current and emergent clinical applications of such hybrid technology in the abdomen and pelvis, both in the field of oncologic and non-oncologic imaging, and we provide, when possible, a comparison with clinically consolidated imaging techniques, like for example PET/CT.
KW - Attenuation correction
KW - MR/PET
KW - Oncologic imaging
KW - PET/MR
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U2 - 10.1007/s00261-016-0894-5
DO - 10.1007/s00261-016-0894-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84987667520
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Abdominal Radiology
JF - Abdominal Radiology
SN - 2366-004X
ER -