Figure 15.

Example breast MRI image using the University of Chicago protocol given in Table 2. This protocol obtains higher temporal resolution than the University of Washington DCE MRI protocol (1:17 min versus 2:51 min) at the expense of some spatial resolution (0.8 mm isotropic versus 0.5 × 0.5 × 0.65 mm). The example shown depicts a 76-year-old patient who underwent MRI for staging of newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer, which demonstrated a 6.7 × 4.8 × 5.8 cm region of segmental non-mass-like enhancement on DCE MRI. Image courtesy of Hiroyuki Abe, MD, PhD, University of Chicago.