Breast Cancer Mortality among Women with a or Mutation in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Plus Mammography Screening Program.

Annual breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plus mammography is the standard of care for screening women with inherited mutations. However, long-term breast cancer-related mortality with screening is unknown. Between 1997 and June 2011, 489 previously unaffected mutation carriers aged 25 to 65 years were screened with annual MRI plus mammography on our study.

Magnetic monitoring of a small Foucault pendulum.

A three-axis magnetometer is used to measure the precession angle of a small Foucault pendulum of 65.4 cm length and period 1.623 s.

Using surface markers for MRI guided breast conserving surgery: a feasibility survey.

Breast MRI is frequently performed prior to breast conserving surgery in order to assess the location and extent of the lesion. Ideally, the surgeon should also be able to use the image information during surgery to guide the excision and this requires that the MR image is co-registered to conform to the patient's position on the operating table. Recent progress in MR imaging techniques has made it possible to obtain high quality images of the patient in the supine position which significantly reduces the complexity of the registration task.