This pilot clinical trial studies ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) techniques in diagnosing breast cancer. New diagnostic procedures may be a more sensitive way to detect breast cancer.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To implement quantitative dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI, diffusion-weighted (DW)-MRI, 31 phosphorus (31P) MRS, magnetization transfer (MT)-MRI, chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST)-MRI, and high-resolution structural imaging at 7 Tesla in patients for diagnosing breast tumors. OUTLINE: Patients undergo measurement of tumor perfusion and permeability using DCE-MRI, tumor cellularity using DW-MRI, phospholipid metabolism using 31P MRS, macromolecular content using MT-MRI, and cellular protein content using CEST-MRI. Diagnostic performance of one, or a combination, of these metrics will be investigated in the context of breast cancer.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
3
Undergo 7T MRI
Undergo 31P MRS
Undergo CEST-MRI
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Sensitivity and specificity
Ninety-percent simultaneous confidence rectangles for sensitivity and specificity will be constructed at the 25th, 50th (median), and 75th percentiles of the model predicted probability of disease.
Time frame: At time of imaging procedure
Pathological disease status
A generalized linear mixed models analysis of variance with a logit link will be used to predict pathological disease status from MRI and MRS parameters.
Time frame: At time of imaging procedure
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Undergo DW-MRI
Undergo DCE-MRI