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Biograph mMR: PET technology

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two is now one.
The inside story on mMR technology

The mMR technology includes:

 The first whole-body MR-

friendly PET architecture

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two is now one.
The inside story on mMR technology

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two is now one.
The first whole-body MR-friendly PET architecture

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two is now one.
The first whole-body MR-friendly PET architecture

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two is now one.
The first whole-body MR-friendly PET architecture

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two is now one.
The first whole-body MR-friendly PET architecture

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Challenge: Space - Static Magnetic Field
Avalanche Photo Diodes (APD) vs. Photo Multiplier Tubes (PMT)
PMTs APDs

Size 10-52mm dia. 5x5mm

Gain Up to 106 Up to 200

Risetime ~1 ns ~5 ns

QE 20 % 70 %

Magnetically sensitive insensitive

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 two is now one.
The first whole-body MR-friendly PET architecture

Preliminary PET specifications:

 LSO crystal material

 4 x 4 x 20 mm Crystal element dimension

 ≤4.7 mm transverse spatial resolution

(FWHM @ 1 cm)

 ≥12 cps/kBq sensitivity

 ≥155 kcps peak NEC rate (@ 21.8 kBq/cc)

 25.8 cm FoV in z-direction

(Based on NEMA 2007)

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 two is now one.
The first whole-body MR-friendly PET architecture

Biograph mMR detector integration enables the industries’ largest PET field of view*

 Eight detectors aligned axially to form one detector head

 Up to 25.8 cm axial (z) field of view!
* Based on Competitive Literature available at time of Publication. Data on file.

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two is now one.
Fully optimized for a strong signal

Attenuation Correction Optimization

 µ maps are derived from MRI data –

no additional acquisitions necessary

 MR-based segmentation and

truncation correction methods

 Attenuation correction of the whole

human body

 User customized µ maps are possible

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Main Components:
System Overview, changes, adaptions

Biograph mMR is a
new development
based on and
using Verio
components.

(internal name:
Mondrian or
Proj. 018)

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System Diagram

Biograph mMR PET

is divided into two
1
main components:

1 PET Detector
Electronics

2 PET Electronic
Cabinet

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 PET Detector Electronics

Gantry Tunnel
without Detector • PET Gantry
Electronic tunnel isocentric
in the MR tunnel
white pockets for
PET detector
cassettes

56 water-cooled
detector
cassettes with 8
crystal blocks
each

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Subcomponents:
Detector Electronic Assembly

• located at the
backside of the
PET Gantry
• each of the 28
water-cooled
DEA supports 2
detectors
( DEA is also
sometimes
named as
DAU = Detector
Acquisition Unit)

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Main Components:
PET Filter Plate

from
magnet There is a second
room filter plate to
connect the
detecting PET
gantry with the
evaluating PET
Electronics

from
technical
room

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Main Components:
PET Electronic Cabinet

• located in the
technical room
• uses same base
cabinet as
MR-ACC

PRS

ACS

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