In a society in which the public choose both modalities of care it makes sense to promote greater understanding amongst the totality of the physician community.
The combined use of different complementary modalities makes it necessary to evaluate the single contribution provided by each of these modalities.
Combining these intrinsic contrast imaging modalities makes it possible to obtain quantitative morphological and chemical information without exogenous staining.
The heterogeneous nature of the response of malignant tumor cell subpopulations to cytotoxic drugs and other therapeutic modalities makes it unlikely that a single treatment regimen will be able to kill all the cells in a tumor".
After completion of this trial, a Cochrane review was published, showing the lack of evidence of most CONV modalities, 7 making it difficult to place the results of this trial in perspective.
However, the inherent flexibility of MRI for the customization of the field of view and spatial resolution, typically considered to be an advantage of the modality, makes it impractical to design CS sampling patterns in advance for all possible scans.
With molecular imaging techniques, breast cancer could be detected even before anatomical changes occur that are required for visualization with currently used imaging modalities, making it valuable for early detection or screening.
Unfortunately, the presence of noise, the variability of the background, and the low and varying contrast of vessels in many imaging modalities such as mammograms, makes it quite difficult to obtain reliable fully automatic or even semi-automatic vessel detection procedures.
Moreover, the lack of standardised scoring systems for all modalities makes the objective evaluation of the degree of inflammation and destruction challenging.
The rising incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in western countries, along with the poor prognosis offered by present-day treatment modalities, makes novel therapies for this disease necessary.
