Keywords: Breast, Elastography
Motivation: While breast tumors can be identified and characterized through biopsy, MR Elastography (MRE) could provide a method of diagnosis with similar sensitivity and specificity while being non-invasive.
Goal(s): Validate the use of MRE against histological grading in biopsy and contrast enhanced MRI breast tumors.
Approach: MRE was performed on patients with known breast tumors to measure the stiffness non-invasively and validate it against biopsy.
Results: Statistically significant correlation was determined between MRE-derived tumor stiffness and histological grade of biopsy.
Impact: The statistically significant association between breast MRE results, a non-invasive method of breast cancer diagnosis, and histological grading, an invasive method, invites the possibility that physicians could diagnose breast cancer non-invasively through further study.
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