Preliminary results of a simplified breast MRI protocol to characterize breast lesions: comparison with a full diagnostic protocol and a review of the current literature

V Romeo, R Cuocolo, R Liuzzi, A Riccardi, A Accurso… - Academic radiology, 2017 - Elsevier
… of the postcontrast timing on lesion kinetics assessment and … breast lesions at 4.5 and 7.5
minutes, with malignant lesions showing a greater percentage washout at the later postcontrast

Breast MRI: state of the art

RM Mann, N Cho, L Moy - Radiology, 2019 - pubs.rsna.org
… Figure 1: Graph shows inflow curves obtained from ultrafast MRI for two breast lesions. The
… phase (360 seconds) of postcontrast MRI, the enhancing lesion was measured as 2.6 cm (…

Contrast-enhanced MR imaging of breast lesions and effect on treatment

K Schelfout, M Van Goethem, E Kersschot… - European Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
… with preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with suspect breast lesions
and the … Two hundred and four consecutive women with suspect breast lesions on clinical …

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the breast at 3T: pre‐and postcontrast evaluation for breast lesion characterization

E Kousi, I Tsougos, K Vasiou… - The scientific world …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… Conventional breast MRI has shown diagnostic sensitivities of 94–99% for screening breast
lesions… have been reported, resulting in many unnecessary biopsies of benign lesions [1, 2]. …

Follow-up of breast lesions detected by MRI not biopsied due to absent enhancement of contrast medium

L Hefler, J Casselman, B Amaya, A Heinig… - European …, 2003 - Springer
… could be identified (3 cases), or if the radiologist was uncertain (1 case), the scheduled biopsy
procedure was aborted after the initial pre- and postcontrast MR-imaging and a repeat MR …

Clinical role of breast MRI now and going forward

D Leithner, GJ Wengert, TH Helbich, S Thakur… - Clinical radiology, 2018 - Elsevier
… weighted MRI at 3.0 T differentiates malignant breast lesions … (a) Sagittal T1-weighted
fat-suppressed post-contrast MRI of … (b) Sagittal T1-weighted fat-suppressed post-contrast MRI of …

Breast DCE-MRI: influence of postcontrast timing on automated lesion kinetics assessments and discrimination of benign and malignant lesions

SC Partridge, KM Stone, RM Strigel, WB DeMartini… - Academic radiology, 2014 - Elsevier
… The choice of delayed postcontrast timing more strongly affects the kinetics assessments
for … benign breast lesions, but our results suggest that a shortened breast DCE-MRI protocol …

Comparison of detectability of breast cancer by abbreviated breast MRI based on diffusion-weighted images and postcontrast MRI

T Yamada, Y Kanemaki, S Okamoto… - Japanese Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
postcontrast MRI (lower). The MIP image from DWI showed … lesions in the outer upper
quadrant of the left breast (circle). The MIP image from the postcontrast MRI also shows the lesion (…

… breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): first postcontrast subtracted images and maximum-intensity projection—a novel approach to breast cancer screening with …

CK Kuhl, S Schrading, K Strobel, HH Schild… - Journal of Clinical …, 2014 - ascopubs.org
… An MRI acquisition time of 3 minutes and an expert radiologist MIP image reading time of 3
seconds are sufficient to establish the absence of breast cancer, with an NPV of 99.8%. With …

Use of clinical MRI maximum intensity projections for improved breast lesion classification with deep convolutional neural networks

N Antropova, H Abe, ML Giger - Journal of Medical Imaging, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… classification based on MIP images significantly outperforms lesion classification based on
either a single slice second postcontrast MRI or a single slice second postcontrast subtraction …