Ferdinand Schweser1,2, Karl-Heinz Herrmann1,
Andreas Deistung1, Marie Atterbury1,3, Pascal A.
Baltzer, Hartmut Peter Burmeister, Werner Alois Kaiser, Jrgen R. Reichenbach1
1Medical Physics Group,
Dept. of Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology 1, Jena University
Hospital, Jena, Germany; 2School of Medicine, Friedrich Schiller
University of Jena, Jena, Germany; 3Dept. of Physics, Brown
University, Providence, RI, United States
During the last 20 years MR mammography (MRM) has proven to be a powerful and highly sensitive modality to detect and study breast cancer. However, the diagnosis of breast carcinoma in early stage is still challenging. In this initial study, we demonstrate, for the first time, that clinical application of quantitative magnetic susceptibility mapping (QSM), a novel technique in the breast is feasible and may provide additional information about breast lesions potentially improving clinical diagnoses.