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Cardiac PET/MRI

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Abstract

Medical imaging plays an important role in clinical management of patients with cardiac diseases and in preclinical and clinical research. The recent availability of hybrid PET/MRI devices that combine positron emission tomography (PET) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) opens up new opportunities. Technical advancements have been necessary to make the two systems with different underlying principles work well together. Growing evidence points to a significant value of this novel modality for imaging of the myocardium and the coronary arteries in order to gain broad insight into the morphological, functional, molecular and cellular aspects of cardiac pathophysiology. PET/MRI can deliver the combined information of stand-alone PET and MRI with improved spatial and temporal co-registration; it can additionally be used to improve PET image quality and quantification accuracy by addressing factors such as motion and partial volume effects, making PET/MRI more than its parts.

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This work was in part supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, SFB 656 Münster (project C6) and by the Herzzentrum Münster e.V. (travel grant).

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    Lars Stegger, Christian Wenning, Kambiz Rahbar, Peter Kies & Otmar Schober

  2. Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospital Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Christoph Schülke

  3. European Institute for Molecular Imaging, University of Münster, Mendelstraße 11, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Christian Wenning & Michael Schäfers

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Stegger, L., Schülke, C., Wenning, C. et al. Cardiac PET/MRI. Curr Cardiovasc Imaging Rep 6, 169–178 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12410-012-9189-6

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