Podcast: Implementing a Hybrid PET/MR System
By Sara Michael |
January 30, 2012
Washington University School of Medicine is only the third site in the U.S. to have this equipment, with two other sites set to come online soon. Siemens received FDA 510(k) clearance in June 2011 for the Biograph mMR, the first system to allow for simultaneous whole-body scanning by MR and PET. Podcast: Implementing a New Hybrid PET/MR System
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Pioneering a new imaging technology is far more complicated than plugging it in and scanning patients. At the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, implementing the Siemens Biograph mMR hybrid 
And despite the start-up challenges, the lower dose and the simultaneous scans provide some major benefits for patients, according to Woodard. In this podcast, Woodard explains how this technology is being used, why her institution became an early adopter, and what they've learned so far.