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New Developments in Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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This chapter describes some of the new developments in breast MRI including higher field systems, dedicated breast MRI systems, and imaging and spectroscopic techniques that attempt to improve the specificity (and possibly sensitivity) of breast MRI. Those include diffusion-weighted breast imaging, perfusion imaging, hydrogen spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging.

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(2008). New Developments in Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Breast MRI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73507-8_13

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