Scandinavia’s first PET/MR scanner inaugurated at Rigshospitalet

The Meyer Foundation has donated an advanced PET/MR scanner to Rigshospitalet. This is the first of its type in Scandinavia, and only the third in the world.

The John & Birthe Meyer Foundation has donated a new advanced PET/MR scanner costing DKK 35 million to Rigshospitalet’s Clinic for Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, headed by Prof. Liselotte Højgaard.

The new combined PET/MR scanner, which can take PET scans and MR scans at the same time on one machine, was first demonstrated in November 2010 at Technisches Universität in Munich.
 
Real-time PET and MR scanning
The new PET/MR scanner is based on an extremely advanced medico-technical principle, which for the first time has made it possible to combine the two entirely different modalities, so that, with one scanner, real-time PET and MR scanning can be carried out. The scanner can cover the patient from head to toe, examining functional anatomy with PET and taking razor sharp anatomical images at sub-millimetre level with MR. This is a completely novel and ground-breaking principle for both research and treating patients.

Press contact:
Prof. Liselotte Højgaard, head of Dept. of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet.
Telephone: 3545 4215