Women's Health MRI

Three-way comparison shows alternative protocols to standard echo-planar imaging can produce higher quality images with breast cancer screening.

Abbreviated MRI; Low-Field Cardiac MRI; Contrast-Enhanced Breast Imaging; Obesity and Alzheimer's; and Neuroimaging and COVID-19

Abbreviated MRI protocols can detect and diagnose breast cancer as well as full-protocol MRI.

Limitations in contrast enhancement standardization indicate unenhanced diffusion measurement should be preferred.

MRI screening every 18 months could catch more cancers, add life years in an economically efficient way.

Algorithm can pre-operatively pinpoint metastasis, potentially helping some patients avoid unnecessary surgery.

Relying on patient- or tumor-specific characteristic to recommend pre-operative MRI could result in missed cancers.

Incorporating this imaging catches 11 percent more cancers, potentially affecting surgery plans and outcomes.

Annual MRI screening – with or without mammography – can prevent at least 50 percent of early deaths.

Breast cancers identified between patient screenings are more aggressive and lethal.