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Simultaneous PET/MRI Imaging During Mouse Cerebral Hypoxia-ischemia

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Translating MRI to PET through conditional diffusion models with enhanced pathology awareness.

Yitong Li¹, Igor Yakushev², Dennis M Hedderich³

¹Lab for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging, Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, School of Medicine and Health, TUM Klinikum, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany; Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany.

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|March 22, 2026

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We developed PASTA, a new AI framework to create synthetic Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). This pathology-aware method improves neurodegenerative disease diagnosis using MRI alone.

Keywords:

Brain Cross-modality translation Diffusion models MRI PET

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
Neuroscience

Background:

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is crucial for diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases but is limited by cost and radiation.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is safer and more accessible but less sensitive for detecting subtle pathological changes.
Existing methods for generating synthetic PET from MRI often fail to capture crucial pathological details.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce PASTA, a novel framework for generating pathology-aware synthetic PET images from MRI.
To enhance the diagnostic capabilities of MRI by improving its sensitivity to neurodegenerative pathologies.
To overcome the limitations of current cross-modality medical image translation techniques.

Main Methods:

Utilized conditional diffusion models for image translation with a focus on pathology awareness.
Developed a dual-arm architecture and multi-modal condition integration for preserving structural and pathological details.
Implemented a novel cycle exchange consistency and volumetric generation strategy for high-quality 3D PET synthesis.

Main Results:

PASTA demonstrated superior performance over state-of-the-art methods in preserving both structural and pathological information.
Synthesized PET scans achieved high qualitative and quantitative accuracy, exhibiting significant pathology awareness.
For Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, synthesized PET scans improved performance by 4% compared to MRI alone, nearing actual PET performance.

Conclusions:

PASTA effectively generates high-quality, pathology-aware synthetic PET images from MRI, addressing a critical gap in medical image translation.
The framework holds significant potential for improving the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases by enhancing MRI's capabilities.
PASTA offers a promising, cost-effective, and radiation-free alternative for functional brain imaging in clinical settings.