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Breast MRI: Haematoma
Aug. 29, 2001
Courtesy: Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, UK
System: Intera 1.5T
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Transverse STIR
- Patient presented with recurrent non-tender mass.
- MR demonstrates large organized haematoma with its own blood supply, confirmed at biopsy.
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Sagittal 3D T1 FFE
- Pre-contrast image shows diffuse heterogeneity within haematoma.
- MR provides superior contrast over conventional X-ray mammography.
- Important with younger women where detection of lesions in conventional mammogram is difficult due to dense breast tissue.
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Sagittal 3D FFE with Proset 121
- Fat-suppressed imaging essential in delineation of tumor boundaries.
- Proset 121 impacts little on scan time compared to SPIR
- isotropic data set in 3:22 min
- Resulting dataset, 1.1mm slice thickness, enables high quality MPR's
Note: Proset 1331 provides even better fat suppression, with an increase in scan time to about 3:50 minutes.
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