Magnetic resonance imaging in breast cancer:A literature review and future perspectives

作     者：Gisela LG Menezes Floor M Knuttel Bertine L Stehouwer Ruud M Pijnappel Maurice AAJ van den Bosch 

作者机构：Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine University Medical Centre Utrecht 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Clinical Oncology》 (世界临床肿瘤学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第5卷第2期

页      面：61-70页

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 100207[医学-影像医学与核医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 08[工学] 1010[医学-医学技术（可授医学、理学学位）] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Breast magnetic resonance imaging Cancer Diffusion-weighted imaging Spectroscopy 7.0 tesla 

摘      要：Early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer are essential for successful treatment. Currently mammography and ultrasound are the basic imaging techniques for the detection and localization of breast tumors. The low sensitivity and specificity of these imaging tools resulted in a demand for new imaging modalities and breast magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) has become increasingly important in the detection and delineation of breast cancer in daily practice. However, the clinical benefits of the use of pre-operative MRI in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer is still a matter of debate. The main additional diagnostic value of MRI relies on specific situations such as detecting multifocal, multicentric or contralateral disease unrecognized on conventional assessment(particularly in patients diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma), assessing the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, detection of cancer in dense breast tissue, recognition of an occult primary breast cancer in patients presenting with cancer metastasis in axillary lymph nodes, among others. Nevertheless, the development of new MRI technolo-gies such as diffusion-weighted imaging, proton spectroscopy and higher field strength 7.0 T imaging offer a new perspective in providing additional information in breast abnormalities. We conducted an expert literature review on the value of breast MRI in diagnosing and staging breast cancer, as well as the future potentials of new MRI technologies.