PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sandra Purz
AU  - Osama Sabri
AU  - Adrian Viehweger
AU  - Henryk Barthel
AU  - Regine Kluge
AU  - Ina Sorge
AU  - Franz Wolfgang Hirsch
TI  - Potential Pediatric Applications of PET/MR
AID  - 10.2967/jnumed.113.129304
DP  - 2014 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine
PG  - 32S--39S
VI  - 55
IP  - Supplement 2
4099  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/Supplement_2/32S.short
4100  - http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/55/Supplement_2/32S.full
SO  - J Nucl Med2014 Jun 01; 55
AB  - Medical imaging with multimodality and whole-body technologies has continuously improved in recent years. The advent of combined modalities such as PET/CT and PET/MR offers new tools with an exact fusion of molecular imaging and high-resolution anatomic imaging. For noninvasive pediatric diagnostics, molecular imaging and whole-body MR have become important, especially in pediatric oncology. Because it has a lower radiation exposure than PET/CT, combined PET/MR is expected to be of special use in pediatric diagnostics. This review focuses on possible pediatric applications of PET/MR hybrid imaging, particularly pediatric oncology and neurology but also the diagnosis of infectious or inflammatory diseases.