Breast Cancer

Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI volumes used to detect lesions

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 17th, 2005

According to recent research from the United States, "Mammography is currently regarded as the most effective and widely used method for early detection of breast cancer, but recently its sensitivity in certain high risk cases has been less than desired."

"The use of dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) has gained considerable attention in the past 10 years, especially for high-risk cases, for smaller multi-focal lesions, or very sparsely distributed lesions," said K.R. Subramanian and colleagues, University of North Carolina, Dept. of Computational Science.

In their report, these researchers described "an interactive...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-02-17)

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