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Following the path of clinical applications of hybrid PET-CT it would seem logical that PET-MR can provide an innovative and attractive alternative taking full advantage of the superiority of MR over CT in differentiating soft tissue characteristics with a reduction in radiation exposure by replacing the CT with MR. The challenges of PET-MR are however, still numerous both on the technical side as on the practical and clinical side.

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  1. Department of Medical Imaging and Information Sciences, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland

    O. Ratib

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Ratib, O., Schwaiger, M. (2013). Introduction. In: Ratib, O., Schwaiger, M., Beyer, T. (eds) Atlas of PET/MR Imaging in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31292-2_1

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