The combination of different types of imaging techniques gives the clearest picture of breast tumors
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners can be programmed images, one kind of tissue, such as bear, for example, fatty tissue or cysts. Researchers said that the combination of three techniques meant that they could identify tumors and benign. The Johns Hopkins University, said that the technical team can also help detect the cancer can spread quickly. They used MRI scanner programmed so that images in different ways. A technique is more marked T1-weighted imaging to examine adipose tissue, showing T2-weighted fluid, as they found in cysts and 3D MRI were combined to obtain a complete picture.The dyes were significantly increased in patients before the MRI to the tumor injected focus images. In the study, 36 patients were examined, half of whom were diagnosed with breast
cancer and half of the benign tumors had been with. The researchers assessed the scans without knowing that the images came from the patient. The technique of combined or multiparametric MRI allows the identification and characterization of breast tumors or lesions in 36 patients were correctly identified benign and malignant.The images were well defined when the medium was added. Ignoring the information Dr. Michael Jacobs, the radiologist who led the study said that each technology has its advantages. But he added: If all of these techniques in a record, an approach that can combine the characteristics of a lesion is usually not possible in the realization of an imaging test. He said more studies are needed to determine whether the approach could be used to demonstrate
the likelihood of the spread of the tumor.MRI expert Professor Martin Leach, based at the Institute for Research on Cancer of the research was a step forward, but said the results should be replicated in much larger studies. Although some of these methods are of little value in itself - for example, T1 and T2, which show that the added value of contrast imaging. On the other hand, researchers do not seem to extract
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