Bosky Ravindranath1, Sachin S. Junnarkar2,
David Bennett3, Xiaole Hong3, Ken Cheng3,
Sean Stoll2, Martin L. Purschke2, Sri Harsha Maramraju1,
Dardo Tomasi2, Sudeepti Southekal1, Paul Vaska2,
Craig Woody2, David J. Schlyer2
1Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook
University, Brookhaven, NY, United States; 2Brookhaven National
Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States; 3Aurora Imaging Technology
Inc., North Andover, MA, United States
At
Brookhaven National Laboratory, we are developing a MRI compatible dedicated
breast PET scanner that will enable simultaneous PET-MRI imaging of the
breast. We have developed and tested a prototype version of the PET system
that has an average resolution less than 2 mm FWHM. Good quality MRI images
were obtained with the PET system operating unshielded inside the field of
view of a 1.5 T dedicated breast MRI. Our next goal is to acquire
simultaneous PET-MRI images using the prototype PET and dedicated breast MRI
system.
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