Abstract #0140

Simultaneous MR and PET Imaging of Human Brain Tumors Using an Integrated MR-PET Scanner

Ciprian Catana¹, Thomas Benner¹, Andre van der Kouwe¹, Dominique L. Jennings¹, Michael Hamm², Poe-Jou Chen^1,3, Ovidiu C. Andronesi¹, Elizabeth R. Gerstner⁴, Larry Byars⁵, Christian Michel⁵, Josef Pfeuffer², Matthias Schmand⁵, Bruce R. Rosen¹, A. Gregory Sorensen¹

¹MGH, Radiology, A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA; ²Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Charlestown, MA, USA; ³Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; ⁵Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Knoxville, TN, USA

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) are widely used imaging technologies with both clinical and biomedical research applications. An MRI-compatible PET scanner prototype has been built for brain applications that allows data from both modalities to be acquired simultaneously. In this work, we demonstrate the feasibility of this combined system for performing simultaneous MR-PET data acquisition in brain tumor patients, including dynamic data acquisition.