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Safer, more effective, and streamlined diagnostic imaging – that’s the idea behind the Clinical
Center’s new Biograph mMR, a fully integrated whole-body simultaneous PET – MRI scanner.
The Clinical Center acquired the new device through a collaboration with the Department
of Defense. Experts will use the tool to evaluate war-wounded service members suffering from
traumatic brain injury. The MRI and the PET scanner puts two really powerful imaging tools
together. The MRI shows us where the abnormalities are in the body. But the PET helps us tell
the metabolic activity of that tumor or area in the brain that’s abnormal. So, it puts
the two most powerful tools that we have for imaging together in one unit. For patients
I think there is going to be major change. They end up going from one place to the other.
They get one test and that leads to yet another test. With an MRI/PET we’ll get all that
information for the patient at the same time and we’ll also avoid a lot of complications
in bringing the information all together behind multiple modalities all together in one place
for one diagnosis. From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL
CENTER TV. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health,
an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.