Abstract #1829
Hybrid PEM/MRI, a new approach for high resolution breast imaging
Farouk Nouizi 1 , Jaedu Cho 1 , Alex Luk 2 , Edward anashkin 3 , Pavel Stepanov 3 , Val zavarzin 3 , Irving weinberg 3 , Lydia Min-Ying Su 1 , Gultekin Gulsen 2 , and Orhan Nalcioglu 2
1
Radiology, University of California Irvine,
Irvine, CA, United States,
2
University
of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States,
3
Weinberg
Medical Physics, LLC, Bethesda, MD, United States
Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) is a dedicated
breast imaging systems performing breast imaging under
gentle compression. PEM exhibited a higher spatial
resolution than PET due to the good immobilization of
the breast and its small interdetector distance.
However, its data acquisition scheme results in a poor
axial spatial resolution. In this study, we introduce a
new combined PEM/MRI system taking advantage of the high
resolution soft-tissue contrast provided by MRI and the
best signal to noise ratio (SNR) due to efficient count
collection configuration of PEM. The performance of the
system is validated on a breast phantom.
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