Improved MR Images of Breast Lesions with Fast Spectroscopic Imaging
Abstract
The progress to date suggests that HiSS can be successfully implemented on clinical scanners and produce high quality images which contain information that is not available in conventional MR scans. HiSS MRI is particularly useful for detection of contrast agents. It is likely that HiSS will produce a significant increase in sensitivity and specificity of MRI for detection of breast cancer as well as other cancers. This means that cancers can be detected early when they are highly treatable. Earlier cancer detection is likely to improve clinical outcome for many cancer patients. During the next year of support we plan to continue to optimize HiSS MRI on the clinical scanner. At the same time, we will begin to scan patients with breast cancer to determine whether HiSS MRI provides significant increases in the sensitivity and accuracy of cancer detection and staging. We believe that based on the difficulty of optimizing HiSS data acquisition and analysis on clinical scanners, a limited amount of work using animal model tumors as a test bed' continues to be justified.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA388732
Entities
People
- Gregory S. Karczmar
Organizations
- University of Chicago