Leynes, Andrew P.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0893-3350
Mayo Clinic
University of California, San Francisco
Citations 2
PET/MRI: Where might it replace PET/CT?
Ehman, Eric C. , Johnson, Geoffrey B. , Leynes, Andrew P. , Johnson, Geoffrey B , Villanueva-Meyer, Javier E. , Cha, Soonmee , Larson, Peder E. Z. , Hope, Thomas A.
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging | October 13, 2017 | Volume: 46 | Issue: 5 | Pages: No page available
PET/MRI: Where might it replace PET/CT?
Ehman, Eric C. , Johnson, Geoffrey B. , Leynes, Andrew P. , Johnson, Geoffrey B. , Villanueva-Meyer, Javier E. , Cha, Soonmee , Larson, Peder E. Z. , Hope, Thomas A. , Johnson, Geoffrey B , Johnson, Geoffrey B
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging | March 31, 2017 | Volume: 46 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 1247-1262
Simultaneous positron emission tomography and MRI (PET/MRI) is a technology that combines the anatomic and quantitative strengths of MR imaging with physiologic information obtained from PET. PET and computed tomography (PET/CT) performed in a single scanning session is an established technology already in widespread and accepted use worldwide. Given the higher cost and complexity of operating and interpreting the studies obtained on a PET/MRI system, there has been question as to which patients would benefit most from imaging with PET/MRI versus PET/CT. In this article, we compare PET/MRI with PET/CT, detail the applications for which PET/MRI has shown promise and discuss impediments to future adoption. It is our hope that future work will prove the benefit of PET/MRI to specific groups of patients, initially those in which PET/CT and MRI are already performed, leveraging simultaneity and allowing for greater degrees of multiparametric evaluation.Level of Evidence: 5Technical Efficacy: Stage 5J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2017;46:1247–1262.