Seith, Ferdinand http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9696-2954
Schraml, Christina
Reischl, Gerald
Nikolaou, Konstantin
Pfannenberg, Christina
la Fougère, Christian
Schwenzer, Nina
Article History
Received: 8 April 2018
Accepted: 25 June 2018
First Online: 30 June 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: The patient population included 9 patients as a part of a larger, prospectively conducted study which was designed as a feasibility study for PET/MRI. This study was approved by the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices as well as the local ethics committee. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients concerning both examinations and the scientific evaluation of their data. So far, the data of those 9 patients have not been included in any study comparing the diagnostic accuracy of both modalities. 20 patients underwent a clinically indicated PET/MRI subsequently to PET/CT. From those patients, written informed consent was obtained for the additional PET/MRI examination. Regarding the retrospective scientific evaluation of the pseudonymized data, the local ethics committee waived informed consent.