Assess PET/MR in diagnosis of disease in comparison with PET/CT

Jianhua Yan; Jason Chu-Chern Lim; Hoi Yin loi; John Totoman; Arvind Kumar Sinha; Swee Titan Quek; David Townsend

doi:10.1186/2197-7364-2-S1-A69

Volume 2 Supplement 1

Proceedings of the 4th PSMR Conference on PET/MR and SPECT/MR

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Assess PET/MR in diagnosis of disease in comparison with PET/CT

Jianhua Yan¹,
Jason Chu-Chern Lim¹,
Hoi Yin loi¹,
John Totoman¹,
Arvind Kumar Sinha²,
Swee Titan Quek² and
David Townsend¹

EJNMMI Physics20152(Suppl 1):A69

https://doi.org/10.1186/2197-7364-2-S1-A69

Published: 18 May 2015

Keywords

Public HealthNuclear MedicineComputational MathematicTechnical PhysicMalignant Disease

The aim of this study is to assess the performance of 18F-FDG whole body PET/MRI in comparison with PET/CT based on SUV. Anatomical location of lesion with Dixon MRI and additional value of advanced MRI technology such as diffusion weighted MR imaging in diagnosis of malignant disease will also be investigated.

Authors’ Affiliations

(1)

A*STAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre, Singapore

(2)

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, National University Hospital, Singapore

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