PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Johannes Czernin AU - Lisa Ta AU - Ken Herrmann TI - Does PET/MR Imaging Improve Cancer Assessments? Literature Evidence from More Than 900 Patients AID - 10.2967/jnumed.114.141838 DP - 2014 Jun 01 TA - Journal of Nuclear Medicine PG - 59S--62S VI - 55 IP - Supplement 2 4099 - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/Supplement_2/59S.short 4100 - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/Supplement_2/59S.full SO - J Nucl Med2014 Jun 01; 55 AB - Various integrated PET/MR imaging systems have recently been developed to provide improved clinical assessments of cancers in tissues that may be anatomically better characterized with MR imaging than with CT, to explore whether the combined anatomic and functional capabilities of MR imaging together with the molecular PET information provide new insights into disease phenotypes and biology, and to reduce radiation exposure to vulnerable populations such as children and women of child-bearing age. The following review summarizes the published studies and informs about the potential diagnostic advantages of this new technology.