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MR Pulse Sequences for PET/MRI

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PET/MRI systems have unique requirements for the MRI scan components, which consist of various MR pulse sequences. These unique requirements include performing whole-body scanning, estimating the photon attenuation for accurate PET reconstructions, diffusion-weighted imaging as an important contrast in many tumor types, and lung imaging for pulmonary nodule screening. Attenuation estimation, whole-body diffusion imaging, and lung imaging are particularly challenging for MRI, but recent technological advances are demonstrating great success for these requirements. This chapter describes the MR pulse sequence concepts and considerations for each of these PET/MRI requirements as well as summarizes the state-of-the-art techniques being used today.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Florian Wiesinger, Andrew Leynes, Nicholas Burris, Maggie Fung, Shreyas Vasanawala, and Hongyu An for providing figures for this chapter.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Peder E. Z. Larson

  2. UC Berkeley-UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Peder E. Z. Larson

  3. Global MR Applications & Workflow, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, USA

    Valentina Taviani

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Larson, P.E.Z., Taviani, V. (2018). MR Pulse Sequences for PET/MRI. In: Iagaru, A., Hope, T., Veit-Haibach, P. (eds) PET/MRI in Oncology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68517-5_2

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