Video from ECR 2015: Thomas Beyer, PhD, on hybrid imaging

Mar 4, 2015

What does the future hold for PET/MRI? Can it ever be cost-effective? Thomas Beyer, PhD, a professor at the Medical University of Vienna, answers these questions in an interview with AuntMinnieEurope.com Editor-in-Chief Philip Ward at ECR 2015.

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