PET/Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications in Abdomen and Pelvis

Ananya Panda; Ajit H Goenka; Thomas A Hope; Patrick Veit-Haibach

doi:10.1016/j.mric.2020.03.010

PET/Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications in Abdomen and Pelvis

Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2020 Aug;28(3):369-380. doi: 10.1016/j.mric.2020.03.010.

Authors

Ananya Panda¹, Ajit H Goenka², Thomas A Hope³, Patrick Veit-Haibach⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55906, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/AnanyaPanda15.
² Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55906, USA.
³ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
⁴ Joint Department Medical Imaging, University Health Network, 585 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2N2, Canada. Electronic address: patrick.veit-haibach@uhn.ca.

PMID: 32624155
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2020.03.010

Abstract

This article gives a brief overview of the current clinical applications in PET/magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in abdominal diseases. Initial technical developments concentrated on improvement of attenuation correction. Significant enhancements have been achieved, which is now considered solved and useable for clinical routine. For clinical applicability, a considerable amount of work was done by several groups to tailor disease-specific protocols for PET/MR imaging. Those protocols focused on providing complementary diagnostic information from the PET as well as from the MR imaging component. Successful protocol implementation has been performed in liver metastases, pancreatic cancer, gynecologic tumors, and especially prostate cancer.

Keywords: Cervical cancer; Hybrid imaging; Liver; Molecular imaging; Neuroendocrine tumor; PET/MR imaging; Pancreatic cancer; Prostate cancer.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Abdominal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Multimodal Imaging / methods*
Pelvic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Positron-Emission Tomography / methods*