Abstract #1331

PET/MR versus PET/CT in the Initial Staging of Head and Neck Cancer

Tetsuro Sekine^1,2, Felipe Barbosa¹, Felix Kuhn¹, Irene A Burger¹, Paul Stolzmann¹, Gaspar Delso³, Edwin ter Voert¹, Miguel Porto¹, Geoffrey Warnock¹, Gerhard Huber¹, Spyros Kollias¹, Gustav Von Schulthess¹, Patrick Veit-Haibach¹, and Martin Huellner¹

¹University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, ²Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan, ³GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States

Head and neck cancer is supposed to be one field where PET/MR might offer benefits over PET/CT. Our study revealed that whole-body staging with PET/MR yields at least equal diagnostic accuracy as PET/CT in determining the stage of head and neck cancer.

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