The use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to model breast compression in x-ray mammography for MR/x-ray data fusion

Abstract

X-ray mammography and contrast-enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provide complementary pathological information for breast cancer diagnosis and surgical/treatment planning. MRI provides good tissue specificity (whether or not the breast is compressed) via a pharmacokinetic model of contrast enhancement, whilst X-ray mammography has spatial