PET/MR may be a ‘one-stop’ imaging test to detect prostate cancer

Ever since the introduction of PET/MR, the industry has been trying to determine the indications it’s the most useful for. University of Michigan researchers recently uncovered that combining PET imaging with multi-parametric MR (mpMR) improves the accuracy of image-guided prostate biopsies.

Prostate cancer is usually multi-focal and involves multiple lesions with varying degrees of risk. Because of that it’s imperative that lesions with the greatest potential for becoming malignant be identified. Read more.