Researchers at the University of Dusseldorf(Dusseldorf, Germany;www.hhu.de) have found that the time for breast cancer imaging via PET/MRI can be reduced by half without sacrificing crucial diagnostic data.

The researchers managed to reduce the duration of F-18 FDG-PET/MRI protocols from 20 minutes to less than 10 minutes in scans of breast cancer patients with small tumors,without missing any vital findings.

This discovery could potentially boost the usage of this method for breast cancer diagnosis and increase efficiency within radiology departments.