Radiotracer dose reduction in integrated PET/MR: implications from national electrical manufacturers association phantom studies

M Oehmigen, S Ziegler, BW Jakoby… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
With the replacement of ionizing CT by MR imaging, integrated PET/MR in selected clinical
applications may reduce the overall patient radiation dose when compared with PET/CT …

Towards improved hardware component attenuation correction in PET/MR hybrid imaging

DH Paulus, L Tellmann, HH Quick - Physics in Medicine & …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) hybrid imaging
attenuation correction (AC) of the patient tissue and patient table is performed by converting …

Comparison of lesion detection and quantitation of tracer uptake between PET from a simultaneously acquiring whole-body PET/MR hybrid scanner and PET from …

M Wiesmüller, HH Quick, B Navalpakkam… - European journal of …, 2013 - Springer
Purpose PET/MR hybrid scanners have recently been introduced, but not yet validated. The
aim of this study was to compare the PET components of a PET/CT hybrid system and of a …

Impact of flexible body surface coil and patient table on PET quantification and image quality in integrated PET/MR

S Fürst, M Souvatzoglou… - Nuklearmedizin …, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
The surface coils of the Biograph mMR integrated PET/MR system were optimised for PET,
but are otherwise unaccounted for. The patient table is still more massive than those of …

Effect of MR contrast agents on quantitative accuracy of PET in combined whole-body PET/MR imaging

C Lois, I Bezrukov, H Schmidt, N Schwenzer… - European journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Purpose Clinical PET/MR acquisition protocols entail the use of MR contrast agents
(MRCA) that could potentially affect PET quantification following MR-based attenuation …

Comparison of PET/CT with sequential PET/MRI using an MR-compatible mobile PET system

R Nakamoto, Y Nakamoto, T Ishimori… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
The current study tested a newly developed flexible PET (fxPET) scanner prototype. This
fxPET system involves dual arc-shaped detectors based on silicon photomultipliers that are …

Acquisition protocol considerations for combined PET/CT imaging

T Beyer, G Antoch, S Müller, T Egelhof… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2004 - Soc Nuclear Med
Since its introduction in 1998, dual-modality PET/CT imaging has received great attention in
the medical community. For the first time, patients can be examined with both CT and PET in …

First clinical experience with integrated whole-body PET/MR: comparison to PET/CT in patients with oncologic diagnoses

A Drzezga, M Souvatzoglou, M Eiber… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
The recently introduced first integrated whole-body PET/MR scanner allows simultaneous
acquisition of PET and MRI data in humans and, thus, may offer new opportunities …

Towards integration of PET/MR hybrid imaging into radiation therapy treatment planning

DH Paulus, D Thorwath, H Schmidt… - Medical physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Multimodality imaging has become an important adjunct of state‐of‐the‐art
radiation therapy (RT) treatment planning. Recently, simultaneous PET/MR hybrid imaging …

Initial results of simultaneous whole-body ToF PET/MR

C Levin, T Deller, W Peterson, SH Maramraju, C Kim… - 2014 - Soc Nuclear Med
660 Objectives In this study, we evaluate the simultaneous imaging performance of a
prototype integrated ToF PET/MR system. Methods A previously described prototype whole …