Table 2.

Summary of sensitivity and specificity in breast lesion diagnosis using in vivo MR spectroscopy

MR Study (Reference Number)	*No. of Lesions (M/B)	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	‡Cho detection criterion	†MR Spectroscopy Tool
Jagannathan et al. (13)	46(32/14)	81	86	Presence, or not	SV
Kvistad et al. (14)	22(11/11)	82	82	Presence, or not	SV
Tse et al. (15)	40(19/21)	89	100	Cho SNR ≥ 2	SV
Huang et al (16)	30(18/12)	100	67	Cho SNR ≥ 2	SV
Bartella et al. (17)	57(31/26)	100	88	Cho SNR ≥ 2	SV
Jacobs et al. (19)	18(8/7)	87	85	Cho SNR ≥ 4	CSI

Note.

^*No. of Lesions (/) = total lesions (malignant/benign).

^‡Cho detection criterion; Cho SNR = Choline signal-to-noise ratio.

^†MRS technique; SV = single-voxel spectroscopy, CSI = chemical-shift imaging.