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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 8.
Published in final edited form as: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2008 Dec;191(6):10.2214/AJR.07.3693. doi: 10.2214/AJR.07.3693

TABLE 4. Average Sensitivity from Three Blinded Reviews of Single-Head and Dual-Head Molecular Breast Imaging as a Function of the Location of the Tumor Within the Breast.

Single Head
Dual Heads
Tumor Location No. of Tumors TP FN Sensitivity
(%)
TP FN Sensitivity
(%)
No. of Additional Tumors Detected
with Dual Heads vs. Single Head Only

Upper outer quadrant 48 41 7 85 45 3 94 4
Upper inner quadrant 23 17 6 74 21 2 91 4
Lower outer quadrant 15 12 3 80 13 2 87 1
Lower inner quadrant 4 2 2 50 2 2 50 0
Superior midline 9 6 3 67 7 2 78 1
Inferior midline 7 6 1 86 7 0 100 1
Medial midline 3 3 0 100 3 0 100 0
Lateral midline 11 9 2 82 10 1 91 1
Subareolar and periareolar 8 6 2 75 7 1 88 1

Total 128 102 26 80 115 13 90 13

Note—With single-head molecular breast imaging, detector 1 was used to image the inferior (in craniocaudal [CC] view) and lateral (in mediolateral oblique [MLO] view) aspects of the breast. With dual-head molecular breast imaging, detector 2 was used in addition to detector 1 to also image the superior (in CC view) and medial (in MLO) view of the breast. TP = true-positive, FN = false-negative.