Abdominal Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Álvaro Badenes Romero; Felipe S Furtado; Madaleine Sertic; Reece J Goiffon; Umar Mahmood; Onofrio A Catalano

doi:10.1016/j.mric.2023.06.003

Abdominal Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Magn Reson Imaging Clin N Am. 2023 Nov;31(4):579-589. doi: 10.1016/j.mric.2023.06.003. Epub 2023 Jul 31.

Authors

Álvaro Badenes Romero¹, Felipe S Furtado², Madaleine Sertic³, Reece J Goiffon³, Umar Mahmood³, Onofrio A Catalano⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Joan XXIII Hospital, Tarragona, Spain.
² Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 37741642
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2023.06.003

Abstract

Hybrid positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is highly suited for abdominal pathologies. A precise co-registration of anatomic and metabolic data is possible thanks to the simultaneous acquisition, leading to accurate imaging. The literature shows that PET/MRI is at least as good as PET/CT and even superior for some indications, such as primary hepatic tumors, distant metastasis evaluation, and inflammatory bowel disease. PET/MRI allows whole-body staging in a single session, improving health care efficiency and patient comfort.

Keywords: Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Ionizing; Liver neoplasms; Lymphadenopathy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Perfusion imaging; Positron-emission tomography; Radiation.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Abdomen / diagnostic imaging
Humans
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases*
Magnetic Resonance Imaging* / methods
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
Positron-Emission Tomography