Internal medicine

Radiology

Breast MRI

Disease

Cancer

Medical physics

Iodinated contrast

Mammography

Breast cancer

Computed tomography

Medicine

Clinical Imaging

Contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) combines conventional mammography with iodinated contrast material to improve cancer detection. CEM has comparable performance to breast MRI without the added cost or time of conventional MRI protocols. Thus, this technique may be useful for indications previously reserved for MRI, such as problem-solving, determining disease extent in patients with newly diagnosed cancer, monitoring response to neoadjuvant therapy, evaluating the posttreatment breast for residual or recurrent disease, and potentially screening in women at intermediate- or high-risk for breast cancer.

Contrast-enhanced mammography: past, present, and future