Invasive Breast Cancer: Predicting Disease Recurrence by Using High-Spatial-Resolution Signal Enhancement Ratio Imaging

Invasive Breast Cancer: Predicting Disease Recurrence by Using High-Spatial-Resolution Signal Enhancement Ratio Imaging
Ka-Loh Li, Savannah C. Partridge, Bonnie N. Joe, Jessica E. Gibbs, Ying Lu, Laura J. Esserman, and Nola M. Hylton
Radiology 2008;248 79-87

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Our study results demonstrate that the size of tumor volume segmented by using set ranges of signal enhancement ratio (SER) values, combined with the spatial pattern of SER images obtained at high-spatial-resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging, can be used to help identify those breast tumors at high risk for disease recurrence with high specificity even prior to preoperative chemotherapy.