In the mammary area, 3T-MRI is used to study breast cancer. Radiomics is combined with dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging, diffusion weighted imaging, diffusion kurtosis imaging, etc. to check cancer molecular subtypes and examine therapeutic effects. Industry-academia collaboration together with the Department of Breast Surgery and the Diagnostic Center for Sonography is supporting R&D and clinical application of ultrasound CT, a promising new method in this area.
Regular joint conferences are being held with the Department of Breast Surgery, the Diagnostic Center for Sonography and the Department of Surgical Pathology to provide opportunities to become familiar with many different breast cancer images and correlating them with pathology.
In the pelvic domain, MRI is used to examine ovarian tumors and uterine cancer. In clinical settings, images taken in Hokkaido University Hospital and elsewhere are interpreted to diagnose diverse uterine/ovarian lesions, both benign and malignant. Various preoperative/postoperative images are examined regularly by conferring with the Department of Gynecology.