Professor Christiane Kuhl, M.D., director of radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Germany, explains how breast magnetic resonance...
MRI Breast
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used for breast imaging as an alternative to mammography. About 50 percent of women have dense breast tissue, which makes detection of smaller cancers very difficult. MRI can be used a a supplemental screening technique in these patients to see through dense tissue. Contrast MRI imaging also clearly shows any areas of high metabolic uptake of contrast, making cancers light up as white dots on the MRI image. These can make cancer detection much easier, compared to a "snow storm" of white on standard mammography caiued by both cancer tissue and dense breast tissue.
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Professor Christiane Kuhl, M.D., director of radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Germany, explains what it means to have...
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ITN Editor Dave Fornell takes a tour of some of the most innovative new medical imaging technologies displayed on the expo floor at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2019 meeting in December.
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Gillian Newstead, M.D., director of global breast imaging and former professor at the University of Chicago, explains a large breast MRI screening study presented at the 2019 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting.
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Below are photos from the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) 2019 meeting Feb. 11-16 in Orlando, Florida. The conference has about 45,000 attendees and more than 1,300 vendors across a vast show floor.
Left to right: Subtraction right mediolateral oblique (MLO) CEM was non-diagnostic because of artifact, potentially due to motion misregistration from extended exposure time; subtraction right MLO implant displaced CEM image shows 5.8 cm enhancing mass (arrow); contrast-enhanced MRI sagittal subtraction image shows concordant mass (arrow).
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A comparison of standard mammography imaging (left) in a woman with dense breasts and a breast MRI imaging study (right) showing a clearly defined cancer and is extremely hard to detect on the mammograms. Images from Christiane Kuhl, M.D.
Feature | MRI Breast | March 04, 2021 | By Dave Fornell, Editor
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A, Contrast-enhanced axial T1-weighted fat-saturated image from baseline MRI before initiation of neoadjuvant therapy shows irregular mass (arrow) in upper inner right breast corresponding to biopsy-proven carcinoma. B, Contrast-enhanced axial T1-weighted fat-saturated image from follow-up MRI performed 3 months after initiation of neoadjuvant therapy shows decrease in size of right breast cancer (arrow). C, Contrast-enhanced axial T1-weighted fat-saturated image 3 months after initiation of neoadjuvant therapy shows new mass (arrow) in upper outer left breast that was assessed as BI-RADS 4. Pathologic examination from MRI-guided core biopsy of new suspicious mass revealed benign usual ductal hyperplasia. No atypia or malignancy was identified. Image courtesy of American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR)
News | MRI Breast | January 15, 2021
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Murray Rebner, M.D., performing a breast ultrasound. Image courtesy of Beaumont Health
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Professor Christiane Kuhl, M.D., director of radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Germany, explains how breast...
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Christopher Comstock, M.D., (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) is the lead author of a paper in JAMA that reports that abbreviated breast MRI detected significantly more (almost 2 and a half times as many) breast cancers than digital breast tomosynthesis (3-D mammography) in average-risk women with dense breasts. Photo courtesy of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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