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Whole-Body MR/PET hybrid imaging: technical considerations, clinical workflow, and initial results
HUANG Yu-qing  ZHANG Le 

DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2011.06.011.


[Abstract] Researchers, radiologists, and nuclear medicine physicians have actively been working on the advent of the MR/PET hybrid imaging modality for a long time. Combined the excellent soft tissue contrast, high spatial and temporal resolution, and functional tissue parameters that MR provides with the high sensitivity of PET, this new imaging modality holds the promising application prospect for the clinical diagnosis. Recently, Siemens has launched a 3.0 Tesla whole-body MR hybrid system that hosts in its isocenter a fully integrated PET detector, which enables whole-body simultaneous MR/PET imaging. In this article, the integration techniques for the Biograph mMR system is shown, the workflow of a MR/PET whole-body hybrid exam and the first image examples from clinical findings are presented.
[Keywords] MR/PET；Biograph mMR

HUANG Yu-qing* APPL Dept., Siemens Shenzhen Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen 518057, China

ZHANG Le APPL Dept., Siemens Shenzhen Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen 518057, China

*Correspondence to: Huang YQ, E-mail: yu_qing.huang@siemens.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2011-09-26
Accepted  2011-11-08
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2011.06.011
DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8034.2011.06.011.

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