Imaging large vessel vasculitis with fully integrated PET/MRI: a pilot study

Einspieler, Ingo; Thürmel, Klaus; Pyka, Thomas; Eiber, Matthias; Wolfram, Sabine; Moog, Philipp; Reeps, Christian; Essler, Markus

doi:10.1007/s00259-015-3007-8

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“…Both PET and MRI are independently useful in the evaluation of cardiac sarcoidosis and simultaneously acquired FDG PET images and dedicated cardiac MRI, including multiplanar delayed postgadolinium enhancement, may serve even more beneficial. Similarly, both PET and MRI have specific roles in the imaging of inflammatory and infectious vasculitis and osteomyelitis, and early reports suggest that co‐registered anatomic and functional information could prove diagnostically useful . Because many systemic inflammatory and infectious processes affect young patients and these patients may require serial examinations to track disease response to treatment, the decreased radiation dose provided with PET/MRI versus PET/CT is attractive.…”

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PET/MRI: Where might it replace PET/CT?

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Simultaneous positron emission tomography and MRI (PET/MRI) is a technology that combines the anatomic and quantitative strengths of MR imaging with physiologic information obtained from PET. PET and computed tomography (PET/ CT) performed in a single scanning session is an established technology already in widespread and accepted use worldwide. Given the higher cost and complexity of operating and interpreting the studies obtained on a PET/MRI system, there has been question as to which patients would benefit most from imaging with PET/MRI versus PET/CT. In this article, we compare PET/MRI with PET/CT, detail the applications for which PET/MRI has shown promise and discuss impediments to future adoption. It is our hope that future work will prove the benefit of PET/MRI to specific groups of patients, initially those in which PET/CT and MRI are already performed, leveraging simultaneity and allowing for greater degrees of multiparametric evaluation.

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PET/MRI: Where might it replace PET/CT?

Ehman

Johnson

Villanueva-Meyer

et al. 2017

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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“…In addition to cranial arteritis, GCA can affect the aorta and branch vessels[1]. Angiography and FDG-PET are complimentary imaging modalities to assess large vessel vasculitis[2, 3]. Angiography can detail arterial damage from vasculitis (e.g.…”

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Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis in an Asymptomatic Patient

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Hughes

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Arthritis & Rheumatology

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“…One recent pilot study evaluated the role of [ 18 F]FDG PET/MRI in a cohort of 12 patients with proven large vessel vasculitis, and compared the imaging with PET/CT [60]. Importantly, the outcome of the PET imaging was similar in both techniques.…”

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Recent Developments in Combined PET/MRI

2016

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Combined positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) is emerging as a powerful technique in clinical applications including oncology, neurology, and cardiology. In this review, we outline recent advances in the field, with particular focus on the study of neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, cardiac disorders, and oncology. We also highlight recent technical improvements in PET/MRI, with particular attention to attenuation correction and the integration with advanced MRI modalities including arterial spin labeling, fMRI, and hyperpolarized 13 C magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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Imaging large vessel vasculitis with fully integrated PET/MRI: a pilot study

Abstract: Hybrid PET/MRI is feasible in LVV and holds promise for precisely determining disease extent and disease activity.

Cited by 97 publications

References 25 publications

PET/MRI: Where might it replace PET/CT?

PET/MRI: Where might it replace PET/CT?

Diagnosis of Giant Cell Arteritis in an Asymptomatic Patient

Recent Developments in Combined PET/MRI

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