Investigating the influence of flip angle and k-space sampling on dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI breast examinations.

"Conflicts of Interest: M.O.L. holds a nonrenumerated directorship of Specialty Scanners, a company developing breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. The Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH) and The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) hold research agreements with Siemens and Philips, manufacturers of MRI systems. Software for breast MRI analysis has been developed and licensed by ICR, and M.O.L. may receive payments under the ICR Rewards for Inventors Scheme. A.E.W.L. has been employed on a joint grant between the ICR and Specialty Scanners. M.O.L. is an NIHR Senior Investigator."

"Funding Sources: We acknowledge the support received for the CR-UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Cancer Imaging Centre in association with the 10.13039/501100000265Medical Research Council and 10.13039/501100000276Department of Health (England) (grants C1060/A10334, C1090/A16464 and C16412/A6269), 10.13039/501100000272National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funding to the Clinical Research Facility in Imaging and the Biomedical Research Centre, the Technology Strategy Board (M1550J) and an NIHR Transitional Research Fellowship (TRF-2013-06-003) to A.E.W.L."