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Keywords

Breast Neoplasms; Cervix Uteri; Diagnostic Imaging; Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Molecular Imaging; Positron-Emission Tomography; Prostate; Ultrahigh field MRI

Research group(s)

• Molecular and Gender Imaging
  Members:
  Katja Pinker-Domenig
  Barbara Fueger

Research interests

• Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy Moitoring with Advanced methods,
• High-field and Ultra-High Field MR Imaging,
• Multiparametric PET/MRI of the Breast, Prostate and Cervix Cancer,
• Molecular Imaging of the Breast Cancer,
• PET/MRI in Oncologic Gender Imaging, 
• Pre-clinical Oncologic and Molecular Imaging.

Techniques, methods & infrastructure

• Mammography
• Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
• Sonography
  B-Mode
  Elastography
  Contrast-enhanced
• MRI
  T1, T2, Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI
  Diffusion MRI (DWI, DTI, Kurtosis Imaging, IVIM)
  MR Spectroscopy
• PET/CT; PET/MRI
• Image-guided Breast & Prostate Interventions

Grants

• Innovative Cancer Imaging with Hyperpolarized MRI and Novel Tracers Colaboration with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2014)
  Source of Funding: FWF (Austrian Science Fund), Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship
  Principal Investigator
• Molecular Imaging of Breast Tumors at 7 Tesla: Proof of Concept (2012)
  Source of Funding: OeNB (Oesterreichische Nationalbank), Anniversary Fund
  Principal Investigator
• Functional Imaging of the Breast: PET-MRI for the detection and assessment of breast lesions (2010)
  Source of Funding: Medical Scientific Fund of the Mayor of the City of Vienna,
  Principal Investigator
• Multiparametric Functional PET-MRI in Breast Lesions: a New Technique for Detection and Assessment of Early Treatment Response (2008)
  Source of Funding: Austrian Society of Senology,
  Principal Investigator

Selected publications

1. Multiparametric MR Imaging with High-Resolution Dynamic Contrast-enhanced and Diffusion-weighted Imaging at 7 T Improves the Assessment of Breast Tumors: A Feasibility Study. Pinker K, Baltzer P, Bogner W, Leithner D, Trattnig S, Zaric O, Dubsky P, Bago-Horvath Z, Rudas M, Gruber S, Weber M, Helbich TH. Radiology. 2015 Aug;276(2):360-70.
2. Improved differentiation of benign and malignant breast tumors with multiparametric 18fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography magnetic resonance imaging: a feasibility study. Pinker K, Bogner W, Baltzer P, Karanikas G, Magometschnigg H, Brader P, Gruber S, Bickel H, Dubsky P, Bago-Horvath Z, Bartsch R, Weber M, Trattnig S, Helbich TH. Clin Cancer Res. 2014 Jul 1;20(13):3540-9.
3. Improved diagnostic accuracy with multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging of the breast using dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion-weighted imaging, and 3-dimensional proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging. Pinker K, Bogner W, Baltzer P, Gruber S, Bickel H, Brueck B, Trattnig S, Weber M, Dubsky P, Bago-Horvath Z, Bartsch R, Helbich TH. Invest Radiol. 2014 Jun;49(6):421-30.
4. Clinical application of bilateral high temporal and spatial resolution dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging of the breast at 7 T. Pinker K, Bogner W, Baltzer P, Trattnig S, Gruber S, Abeyakoon O, Bernathova M, Zaric O, Dubsky P, Bago-Horvath Z, Weber M, Leithner D, Helbich TH. Eur Radiol. 2014 Apr;24(4):913-20.
5. Combined contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance and diffusion-weighted imaging reading adapted to the "Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System" for multiparametric 3-T imaging of breast lesions. Pinker K, Bickel H, Helbich TH, Gruber S, Dubsky P, Pluschnig U, Rudas M, Bago-Horvath Z, Weber M, Trattnig S, Bogner W. Eur Radiol. 2013 Jul;23(7):1791-802.