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| MRI assessment of breast mass with sense-body coil and comparison with X-ray mammography |
| LI Song-bai1, LI Lin1, RAN Peng-cheng1, CHAI Xiao-ming1, GAO Zhong-xue2, DU Huai-lin1, WANG Zhao-yuan1 |
| 1.Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China;2.Shaoxing Women and Children Hospital, Shaoxing Zhejiang 312000, China |
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Abstract Objective: To evaluate the effect of sense-body coil on the assessment of breast mass. Materials and Methods: Thirty patients with 33 breast masses found in physical examination were examined by MR with sense-body coil and X-ray mammography. The assessment of benign or malignancy by MR results depended on signs of plain scanning and dynamic enhancing signs, the MR assessment results were compared with that of X-ray mammography. Results: The diagnostic sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of these four methods were: X-ray mammography was 66.7%, 87.5%, 81.8% respectively；MRI plain scanning was 66.7%, 75.0%, 72.7%； dynamic enhancement was 88.9%, 100%, 97%, respectively. Conclusion: The sense-body coil have the same value as specialized breast coil of MR imaging in the assessment of breast mass.
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Received: 25 December 2005
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2007, Vol. 18 
