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Podcast: Implementing a Hybrid PET/MR System
Pamela Woodard, MD, of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, discusses the challenges and benefits of being an early adopter of this technology.
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"It's a very new piece of equipment," said Pamela Woodard, MD, of the Center for Clinical Imaging Research (CCIR), Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine. "It's not like a CT scanner that everyone has been using for 35 years and you just start scanning."
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.
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