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PET/MRI: Reliability/Reproducibility of SUV Measurements

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The role of quantitative imaging biomarkers using advanced multimodal and multiparametric imaging technologies is becoming increasingly important in clinical and research settings. Substantial progress has been achieved during the last decade in PET detector technology enabling the development of hybrid PET/CT and PET/MRI instrumentation. Whole-body hybrid PET/MR imaging is being investigated in clinical setting for diagnosis, staging, treatment response monitoring, and radiation therapy treatment planning of a wide range of oncologic malignancies. The challenges faced by quantitative imaging in the context of PET/CT have been investigated since the advent of this technology more than 15 years ago, and a large number of professional societies established committees and task groups to support and promote the use of quantitative imaging biomarkers in the context of cancer screening, prediction, and assessment of response to treatment. The deployment of hybrid PET/MRI in the clinic poses new challenges, and additional difficulties which are still open research questions and, as such, advanced algorithms enabling quantitative imaging biomarkers using this technology have to be developed and validated. This chapter focuses on the reliability and reproducibility of SUV measurements on hybrid PET/MRI systems considering that this technology is still in its infancy and its quantitative potential not fully established yet.

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This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Grant SNSF 31003A-149957 and the Swiss Cancer Research Foundation under Grant KFS-3855-02-2016.

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Zaidi, H., Burger, I.A. (2018). PET/MRI: Reliability/Reproducibility of SUV Measurements. 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_6

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