title: Principles of Simultaneous PET/MR Imaging.
abstract: Combined PET/MR imaging scanners capable of acquiring simultaneously the complementary information provided by the 2 imaging modalities are now available for human use. After addressing the hardware challenges for integrating the 2 imaging modalities, most of the efforts in the field have focused on developing MR-based attenuation correction methods for neurologic and whole-body applications, implementing approaches for improving one modality by using the data provided by the other and exploring research and clinical applications that could benefit from the synergistic use of the multimodal data.
authors.affiliation: Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Building 149, 13th Street, Room 2.301, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA. Electronic address: ccatana@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Ciprian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Catana
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Integrated hardware; MR imaging; MR-Based attenuation correction; Multimodal imaging; PET; PET/MR imaging; Simultaneous imaging; Time-of-flight PET