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Abstract #2719

Sequential Integrated PET/CT-MR System: Comparison of Image Registration Accuracy of PET/CT Versus PET/MR

Felix Pierre Kuhn1, Florian Wiesinger2, Scott Wollenweber3, Andrei Samarin1, Gustav von Schulthess1, Daniel Schmid1

1Radiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; 2GE Global Research, Munich, Germany; 3GE Healthcare, Waukesha, United States

Multi-modality imaging combines morphological and functional information originating from different imaging platforms and is based on the critical assumption of accurate registration. In the presented work a tri-modality PET/CT+MR system is used to investigate the hardware registration performance between sequential PET and MR versus gold standard PET/CT.

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