Manoj M. Nimbalkar1,
Matthias Mller2, Titus Lanz2, Stephan G. Nekolla1,
Sibylle Ziegler1, Rebekka Kraus1, Sebastian Frst1,
Axel Haase3, Markus Schwaiger1, Isabel Dregely1
1Klinikum
rechts der Isar, Technischen Universitt Mnchen, Mnchen, Bayern, Germany; 2RAPID
Biomedical GmbH, Rimpar, Germany; 3Zentralinstituts fr
Medizintechnik, Technische Universitt Mnchen, Mnchen, Bayern, Germany
Novel hybrid systems such as PET/MR can simultaneously provide metabolical and anatomical information in breast cancer imaging. Here we present design and implementation of a 16-channel breast RF coil optimized for simultaneous PET/MR (3T) systems. In phantom studies we found that the MR performance of the PET/MR coil was comparable to MR-only coils. Accurate PET quantification could be achieved with the PET/MR breast coil in the PET FOV by implementing a CT-based template-attenuation correction (AC) map of the coil to be combined with the MR-acquired phantom-AC map.