Women’s imaging specialists have acknowledged it for some time, but now the American Cancer Society has issued guidelines that underscore the value of MRI breast cancer screening for high-risk women. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that when cancer is diagnosed in one breast, the other should undergo an MRI exam.

The continued merging of imaging modalities such as PET/CT, SPECT/CT and MR-PET enable clinicians to better integrate the benefits of complementary modalities. The benefits of these hybrids include faster acquisition times with increased performance in resolution and sensitivity.