Catana Ciprian
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Building 149, 13th Street, Room 2.301, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2017 May;25(2):231-243. doi: 10.1016/j.mric.2017.01.002.
Combined PET/MR imaging scanners capable of acquiring simultaneously the complementary information provided by the 2 imaging modalities are now available for human use. After addressing the hardware challenges for integrating the 2 imaging modalities, most of the efforts in the field have focused on developing MR-based attenuation correction methods for neurologic and whole-body applications, implementing approaches for improving one modality by using the data provided by the other and exploring research and clinical applications that could benefit from the synergistic use of the multimodal data.
能够同时获取两种成像模式所提供的互补信息的PET/MR联合成像扫描仪现已可供人类使用。在解决了整合这两种成像模式的硬件挑战之后,该领域的大部分工作都集中在开发用于神经和全身应用的基于MR的衰减校正方法、利用另一种模式提供的数据来改进一种模式的实现方法,以及探索可从多模态数据的协同使用中受益的研究和临床应用。