An overview of PET/MR, focused on clinical applications.
Onofrio Antonio CatalanoWilliam Roger MaschCiprian CatanaUmar MahmoodDushyant Vasudeo SahaniMichael Stanley GeeLeon MenezesAndrea SoricelliMarco SalvatoreDebra GervaisBruce Robert RosenPublished in: Abdominal radiology (New York) (2018)
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.
Keyphrases
- positron emission tomography
- pet ct
- computed tomography
- magnetic resonance
- contrast enhanced
- pet imaging
- high resolution
- healthcare
- magnetic resonance imaging
- systematic review
- risk assessment
- prostate cancer
- primary care
- physical activity
- randomized controlled trial
- robot assisted
- electronic health record
- social media
- fluorescence imaging
- human health
- photodynamic therapy
- quality improvement