The need for an alternative breast imaging method, and the potential for magnetic
resonance (MR) in fulfilling this role, is not a new concept. MR images of the breast
were some of the first images produced of any human anatomical part [
1
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2
]. When commercial MR imaging began, early clinical trials predicted potential for
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in breast cancer diagnosis [
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
]. More detailed clinical studies, however, revealed that MRI had little to offer over
less expensive and more widely available conventional imaging methods [
[7]
]. By the late 1980s, breast MRI was thought by most experts in the field to have little
future [
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☆Funding, in part, for this research was provided by grants from the National Cancer Institute, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the Helen Buchanan and Stanley Joseph Seeger Endowment for the Fellowship in Breast Oncology, the Chilton Foundation, and Squibb Diagnostics.
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