MALVERN, Pa., Nov. 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — At the 96th
Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society
of North America (RSNA), November 28 – December 2 in Chicago,
Siemens Healthcare (Booth #822, East Building/Lakeside Center, Hall
D) will unveil the Biograph™ mMR*, the world’s first
integrated whole-body molecular Magnetic Resonance (MR) system with
simultaneous data acquisition technology, currently undergoing
clinical use testing. This revolutionary system comprises an MR
scanner and an integrated Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
detection system with an architecture that performs as one. In the
new 3-Tesla hybrid system, Siemens developers have succeeded for
the first time in simultaneously capturing MR and PET data with a
whole-body system. The Biograph mMR system has been installed at
the University Hospital “Klinikum rechts der Isar” of the Munich
Technical University in Germany.
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“Together with our partner Siemens, we are entering a new
dimension in diagnostic imaging today,” says Prof. Dr. Markus
Schwaiger, director of the Clinic for Nuclear Medicine at the
University Hospital. “We’ve initiated clinical use testing of
Biograph mMR in an effort to diagnose diseases at a very early
stage to see the progression of disease and to use that information
to develop a therapy plan precisely focused on the respective
patient. Furthermore, we plan to use the system for cancer
follow-up in the long run, by reducing radiation exposure by the
use of the system.”
With the simultaneous acquisition of MR and PET data, this
system is designed to provide new opportunities for imaging. While
MR provides exquisite morphological and functional details in human
tissue, PET goes further to investigate the human body at the level
of cellular activity and metabolism. The innovative system ha
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