Water-selective spectral-spatial contrast-enhanced breast MRI for cancer detection in patients with extracapsular and injected free silicone. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the use of contrast-enhanced, T1-weighted, water-selective spectral-spatial 3D gradient echo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with magnetization transfer (3DSSMT) for detecting breast cancer in patients with intraparenchymal silicone. CONCLUSION: Water-selective 3DSSMT provides superior fat and silicone suppression in patients with free silicone as compared with conventional fat saturation. It enables direct, high-quality, high-spatial-resolution, T1-weighted breast MRI of contrast enhancement without the need for subtraction processing and aids diagnosis of cancer in the breast with free silicone.

publication date

  • October 17, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Breast Implants
  • Breast Neoplasms
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Silicone Gels

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33751533884

PubMed ID

  • 17145408

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 24

issue

  • 10