Fig. 8: Representative images from patients.
From: Intratumoral in vivo staging of breast cancer by multi-tracer PET and advanced analysis
(Patient 1) A 48-year-old with biopsy-proven invasive ductal carcinoma (asterisks) in the right breast with extensive DCIS (arrows), which was proven in final histopathology. Axial subtraction image of contrast-enhanced dynamic breast MRI in the upper half shows the intensively enhancing lesion (asterisk) with a linear non-mass-enhancement (arrow) towards the nipple. In the lower half, axial PET shows the high SUV of the invasive tumor (asterisk; SUV mean 7.39) and low SUV in the localization of DCIS (arrow; SUV max 1.27). (Patient 2) A 46-year-old with biopsy-proven invasive ductal carcinoma (asterisks) in the left breast with associated DCIS (arrows), which was proven in final histopathology. Axial subtraction image of contrast-enhanced dynamic breast MRI in the upper half shows the intensively enhancing lesion (asterisk) with a linear non-mass-enhancement (arrow) towards the nipple. In the lower half, axial PET shows the high SUV of the invasive tumor (asterisk; SUV mean 7.39) and the low SUV in the localization of the DCIS (arrow; SUV max 1.27).
