A dedicated radiofrequency antenna array for simultaneous metabolic magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography imaging

Current medical imaging devices allow highly effective minimally invasive therapies, especially when used to target drugs or treatments specifically to anatomical malformations. However, anatomical malformations typically become apparent in a late stage of disease, whereas they are the result of changes in biochemical processes that begin much earlier in time. We will develop a dedicated combination of a radiofrequency antenna array for metabolic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and shielding boxes for positron emission tomography (PET) detectors, to simultaneously acquire and visualize both the distribution of a drug (using PET) and its effect on biochemistry (using metabolic MRI), with high sensitivity.