Philips Healthcare parent Royal Philips Electronics has announced a breakthrough in its development of a hybrid PET/MR scanner.
Philips is developing the scanner with funds provided by the European Union as part of the HYPERImage research project. The project began in 2008 and involves eight partners from six European countries; it has a total budget of around 7 million euros ($10.4 million).
The design of the new scanner is based on concurrent acquisition of images using the company's time-of-flight PET technology, as well as MRI data. The announced milestone is the development of a functional gamma-ray detector that meets the performance requirements of the latest time-of-flight PET scanners and that is compatible with the strong magnetic fields in a combined PET/MRI scanner.
Details of the group's results are being presented at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, which is taking place this week in Orlando, FL.
The Philips research group anticipates that the hybrid scanner will advance the accuracy of diagnostic imaging in cardiology and oncology, as well as assist in developing new approaches to therapy planning, guidance, and response monitoring.
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