Ann Jillian creating change in breast diagnosis for over twenty years. The only exam federally mandated with strict passing criteria is the mammogram. We can thank celebrity actress Ann Gillian, who had a bad experience with poor quality mammography, when her breast cancer was missed due to poor mammography image quality.  The more she learned about her disease, the limitations of diagnosis, the possibilities that can go awry during...

Here’s a brief time-line of breast mri history. We are very fortunate to have this relatively new exam and the technological tools available to us during this age. Breast MRI started being done commercially in the 1990′s on the older long bore magnets when the main field strength was a 1.5T (known as a high field MRI system), the most commonly used field strength used. The sequences were much slower in the 1990′s and...

(November 2009) Breast mri screening should be performed a specific way, and we actually found several places performing the exam incorrectly. What those sites don’t know, they don’t know, but they were still charging for the exam and getting away with it! We wanted to share with patients, the public and MRI professionals how important it is to do breast MRI exams correctly. When we heard there are some radiology centers...