Moldable MRI breast coil: August 2011- A moldable MRI breast coil was under development according to the notice I received from my Google alerts. Currently, we know that MRI breast coils are designed to be placed on the MRI scanning table, with the patient lying prone and the breasts dangling down into the MRI breast coil. With the size of some women being rather large, not all women will fit into the MRI scanner while lying prone on the...

Optimizing Breast MRI Breast MRI imaging offers an opportunity for a radiology practice to differentiate itself. By Catherine Leyen, ARRT(R)(MR)(CV) (*This Optimizing Breast MRI article appeared in the March Issue of Advance Magazine for Imaging.  One of the goals of this information was to present to reading breast radiologists that the national average for breast mri is five to six percent of their mammography volume. ) Just a few years...

Would you believe the youngest breast cancer patient is 4 years old? Not only have I sometimes heard complaints from medical staff when exams are ordered to be performed on the elderly, but worse yet, I have heard complaints when they are ordered on children. “Why are we working on this person?” is the usual statement I’ve heard, but I want to say to those health care workers who work on the elderly and the very young, you...