Breast Cancer
New breast cancer findings from Peking University described
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 17th, 2009
"Dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is the MRI technique of choice for detecting breast cancer, which can be roughly classified as either quantitative or semiquantitative. The major advantage of quantitative DCE-MRI is its ability to provide pharmacokinetic parameters such as volume transfer constant (K-trans) and extravascular extracellular volume fraction (v(e))," scientists in Beijing, People's Republic of China report.
"However, semiquantitative DCE-MRI is still the clinical MRI technique of choice for breast cancer diagnosis due to several major practical difficulties in the implementation of quantitative DCE-MRI in a clinical setting,...
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