Korean J Med Phys.  2010 Mar;21(1):22-28.

Analysis of 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Pattern in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma of Breast

• Cho JH
• Park CS
• Lee SY
• Kim BH

Abstract

To evaluate the potential value of 1H Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) for detecting and characterizing invasive ductal carcinoma of breast. We conducted 1H Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), using a 3.0T MR scanner, on 40 patients who were histologically diagnosed to have invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC); tumor areas of the patients were designated as experimental samples, and non-tumor areas as control samples. The peak at 3.2 ppm is characteristically intense and observed in 34 cases of the total 40 invasive ductal carcinoma (sensitivity 86.2%; specificity 100%; positive predictive value 100%; negative predictive value 60%). In constrast peak at 1.3 ppm is characteristically intense and observed in normal breast (sensitivity 86.2%; specificity 100%; positive predictive value 100%; negative predictive value 60%). The study shows that 1H MRS can effectively discriminate invasive ductal carcinoma from normal breast in most cases. It also demonstrates the feasibility of localized in vivo 1H MRS technique as a new diagnostic modality in the detection of breast tumor.

Keyword

Breast invasive ductal carcinoma; 1H MRS (magnetic resonance spectroscopy)

MeSH Terms

Breast
Carcinoma, Ductal
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Magnetics
Magnets
Sensitivity and Specificity