TY - JOUR
T1 - PET/MRI in cancer patients
T2 - first experiences and vision from Copenhagen
AU - Kjær, Andreas
AU - Loft, Annika
AU - Law, Ian
AU - Berthelsen, Anne Kiil
AU - Borgwardt, Lise
AU - Löfgren, Johan
AU - Johnbeck, Camilla Bardram
AU - Hansen, Adam Espe
AU - Keller, Sune
AU - Holm, Søren
AU - Højgaard, Liselotte
PY - 2013/2
Y1 - 2013/2
N2 - Combined PET/MRI systems are now commercially available and are expected to change the medical imaging field by providing combined anato-metabolic image information. We believe this will be of particular relevance in imaging of cancer patients. At the Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen we installed an integrated PET/MRI in December 2011. Here, we describe our first clinical PET/MR cases and discuss some of the areas within oncology where we envision promising future application of integrated PET/MR imaging in clinical routine. Cases described include brain tumors, pediatric oncology as well as lung, abdominal and pelvic cancer. In general the cases show that PET/MRI performs well in all these types of cancer when compared to PET/CT. However, future large-scale clinical studies are needed to establish when to use PET/MRI. We envision that PET/MRI in oncology will prove to become a valuable addition to PET/CT in diagnosing, tailoring and monitoring cancer therapy in selected patient populations.
AB - Combined PET/MRI systems are now commercially available and are expected to change the medical imaging field by providing combined anato-metabolic image information. We believe this will be of particular relevance in imaging of cancer patients. At the Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen we installed an integrated PET/MRI in December 2011. Here, we describe our first clinical PET/MR cases and discuss some of the areas within oncology where we envision promising future application of integrated PET/MR imaging in clinical routine. Cases described include brain tumors, pediatric oncology as well as lung, abdominal and pelvic cancer. In general the cases show that PET/MRI performs well in all these types of cancer when compared to PET/CT. However, future large-scale clinical studies are needed to establish when to use PET/MRI. We envision that PET/MRI in oncology will prove to become a valuable addition to PET/CT in diagnosing, tailoring and monitoring cancer therapy in selected patient populations.
U2 - 10.1007/s10334-012-0357-0
DO - 10.1007/s10334-012-0357-0
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0968-5243
JO - Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine
JF - Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine
ER -
