Whole-Body MRI and FDG PET Fused Images for Evaluation of Patients with Cancer

Roberto C. Domingues Michel P. Carneiro Fernanda Cristina Rueda Lopes Romeu C. Domingues Lea Mirian Barbosa da Fonseca Emerson L. Gasparetto

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the feasibility of fused whole-body MRI and PET for the evaluation of patients with cancer.

CONCLUSION. MRI has proven to be superior to CT for studying several regions of the body, and PET FDG has become an established diagnostic tool in oncology. Because FDG ac­cumulates avidly in tumor tissue, fusing FDG PET to whole-body MRI allows good anatomy-based evaluation of disease.