TY - JOUR
T1 - Advanced Breast MRI Techniques
T2 - Helpful for Screening Breast Cancer?
AU - Porembka, Jessica H.
AU - Seiler, Stephen J.
AU - Sharma, Pooja B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used in conjunction with mammography as a screening tool to detect breast cancers in asymptomatic high-risk women. Conventional dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) breast MRI has a high sensitivity but only moderate specificity for the detection of breast cancer. The primary goal of developing and applying advanced breast MRI techniques that can assess tissue biology is to improve lesion specificity. This review provides a summary of the advances in DCE-MRI techniques and the use of diffusion-weighted imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy for breast cancer detection. Publications on the use of these advanced MRI techniques are largely single-institution studies with small numbers of patients, which limits the generalization of this data to a wider screening population. In their current forms, these adjunctive techniques require further research, incorporating an expanded patient population, to validate their utility for breast cancer screening.
AB - Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used in conjunction with mammography as a screening tool to detect breast cancers in asymptomatic high-risk women. Conventional dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) breast MRI has a high sensitivity but only moderate specificity for the detection of breast cancer. The primary goal of developing and applying advanced breast MRI techniques that can assess tissue biology is to improve lesion specificity. This review provides a summary of the advances in DCE-MRI techniques and the use of diffusion-weighted imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy for breast cancer detection. Publications on the use of these advanced MRI techniques are largely single-institution studies with small numbers of patients, which limits the generalization of this data to a wider screening population. In their current forms, these adjunctive techniques require further research, incorporating an expanded patient population, to validate their utility for breast cancer screening.
KW - Advanced breast MRI techniques
KW - Breast cancer
KW - Diffusion-weighted imaging
KW - Dynamic contrast enhanced
KW - Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
KW - Screening
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U2 - 10.1007/s12609-016-0226-3
DO - 10.1007/s12609-016-0226-3
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84990864138
SN - 1943-4588
VL - 8
SP - 236
EP - 241
JO - Current Breast Cancer Reports
JF - Current Breast Cancer Reports
IS - 4
ER -