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01.03.2009
PET/MRI system design
Erschienen in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Sonderheft 1/2009
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Introduction
The combination of clinical MRI and PET systems has received increased attention in recent years. In contrast to currently used PET/CT systems, PET/MRI offers not only improved soft-tissue contrast and reduced levels of ionizing radiation, but also a wealth of MRI-specific information such as functional, spectroscopic and diffusion tensor imaging. Combining PET and MRI, however, has proven to be very challenging, due to the detrimental cross-talk effects between the two systems.
Objective
Significant progress has been made in the recent years to overcome these difficulties, with several groups reporting PET/MRI prototypes for animal imaging and a clinical insert for neurological applications being demonstrated at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
Discussion
In this paper we review different architectures for clinical PET/MRI systems, and their possibilities, limitations and technological obstacles.