Combined PET/MR: Where Anatomical Imaging Meets Cellular Function

Drew R DeBay; Kimberly D Brewer

doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3499-8_22

Combined PET/MR: Where Anatomical Imaging Meets Cellular Function

Methods Mol Biol. 2024:2729:391-408. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3499-8_22.

Authors

Drew R DeBay^{1

2}, Kimberly D Brewer^{3

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Biomedical Translational Imaging Centre (BIOTIC), Halifax, Canada.
² Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
³ School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. brewerk@dal.ca.
⁴ Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. brewerk@dal.ca.
⁵ Diagnostic Radiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. brewerk@dal.ca.

PMID: 38006508
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3499-8_22

Abstract

Recent technological advances in medical imaging have allowed for both sequential and simultaneous acquisition of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) data. Simultaneous PET/MRI offers distinct advantages by efficiently capturing functional and metabolic processes with co-localized, high-resolution anatomical images while minimizing time and movement. We will describe some of the technical and logistic requirements for optimizing sequential and simultaneous PET/MRI in the preclinical research setting.

Keywords: Hybrid imaging; Image calibrations; Image corrections; Image registration; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); PET/MR workflow; Positron emission tomography (PET); Preclinical imaging; Sequential acquisition; Simultaneous acquisition.

MeSH terms

Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
Movement
Multimodal Imaging* / methods
Positron-Emission Tomography* / methods
Tomography, X-Ray Computed