Table 2.

2 Breast CT Comfort Survey Results In 209 Patients

	Score
Question	Mean ± SD	Median*
Position†	6.6 ± 2.5	7 (6.3, 7.7)
Breast Hold‡	7.3 ± 2.3	8 (7.3, 8.7)
Comfort⫯	8.1 ± 5.0	8 (7.1, 8.9)
Breast CT vs Mammography↑	8.8 ± 2.0	10 (10, 10)

^*Number in parentheses are the 95% confidence units.

^†Position refers to comfort of the position on the breast CT table (1 = poor, 10 = excellent).

^‡Breath hold refers to ease of 18.8 second breath hold (1 = very difficult, 10 = not at all difficult).

^⫯Comfort refers to the over all comfort of breast CT (1 = very uncomfortable, 10 = extremely comfortable).

^↑Breast CT Verses mammography refers to the comfort during breast CT as compared with comfort during screen-film mammography (1 = comfort was much worse then that of screen-film mammography, 5.5 = comfort was equal to that of screen-film mammography, 10 = breast CT was much more comfortable than screen-film mammography.uite 3100