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@lifetraveler I looked to see if my Cancer Ctr. does PEM, but guess not. There are few out there. There is a clinical trial going on at Memorial Sloan Kettering: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01864083 . And there is supposedly some use or former trial of PEM at Swedish Hospital in Seattle, but it looks like they mostly use PET/CT scans.
I found the NIH article you mention, but even though it says it can be helpful for those who struggle to use an MRI machine, the "PEM cannot provide the anatomical detail that is provided by MRI", & uses a lot of radiation. So it doesn't look like it's going to be as helpful as we'd hoped. Thanks for the info!

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@jardinera25 :

Thank you so much for your further research and update! For some reason I thought this new scanning tool uses low-dose radiation, I must be mistaken, sorry... Just for curiosity, I sent my surgeon a message to inquire about this, because she ordered a Bilateral breast MRI with contrast for me - to be done in December - to make sure there's no recurrence; and she serves as the "architect" of my care team of oncologists. Hopefully she'll reply soon to provide some clear direction for us.

Thanks again for being my comrade!