How PET/MR Can Add Value for Children with Cancer

This article lists 10 action points, which might improve the clinical value of PET/MR for children with cancer. However, even if PET/MR proves valuable, it cannot enter mainstream applications if it is not accessible to the majority of pediatric cancer patients. Therefore, innovations are needed to make PET/MR scanners affordable and increase patient throughput.SummaryPET/MR offers opportunities for more efficient, accurate, and safe diagnoses of pediatric cancer patients. The impact on patient management and outcomes has to be substantiated by large-scale prospective clinical trials.
Source: Current Radiology Reports - Category: Radiology Source Type: research