Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
305-03-002 ISMRM Abstract

Imaging Performance of a Human BrainPET 7T insert

Primary: Physics & Engineering - PET/MR
Secondary: Physics & Engineering - Hybrid & Novel Systems Technology
305-03-002 · Hybrid and Novel Systems · Monday, 11 May, 1:50 PM–3:40 PM · Ballroom West
Keywords: Metabolic imaging Multiparametric imaging Ultra-high-field PET-MRI Multimodal neuroimaging
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N. Jon Shah1,2,3, Debora Niekaemper1, Jürgen J Scheins1, Lutz Tellmann1, Cláudia Régio Brambilla1, Chang-Hoon Choi1, Ezequiel Farrher1, Jörg Felder4, Sandra Krause1, Nicole Burda1, Lara Kliebe1, David Arutinov5, Roger Heil5, Wolfgang Silex5, Stefan van Waasen5, Dirk Grunwald6, Manfred Lennartz6, Tobias Meurer6, Ghaleb Natour6, Bjoern Weissler7,8, Florian Mueller7, David Schug7,8, Eike Gegenmantel8, Harald Radermacher7, Oliver Muelhens8, Markus Lang9, Pierre Gebhardt10, Jean Luc Lefaucheur11, Zhaolin Chen12,13, Gary F Egan12, Volkmar Schulz7,8, Christoph W Lerche 1
1Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 4, INM-4, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany
2Department of Neurology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
3Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 11, INM-11, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany
4Affinity Imaging GmbH, Jülich, Germany
5Integrated Computing Architectures - Peter Gruenberg Institute 4 (PGI-4), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany
6Institute of Technology and Engineering (ITE), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany
7Institute of Imaging & Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
8Hyperion Hybrid Imaging Systems GmbH, Aachen, Germany
9Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 5, INM-5, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany
10Institute of Experimental Molecular Imaging, (now with Bruker Biospin GmbH & Co KG, Germany), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
11Inviscan Imaging Systems SA, Strasbourg, France
12Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Clayton, Australia
13Department of Data Science and AI, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Clayton, Australia
Presenting Author: Christoph W Lerche

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References

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