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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 5. Sensitivity of Molecular Breast Imaging as a Function of Views Used for Interpretation.

Reader 1
Reader 2
Reader 3
Views Used No. of
Tumors
Detected
Sensitivity
(%)
No. of
Tumors
Detected
Sensitivity
(%)
No. of
Tumors
Detected
Sensitivity
(%)
Average
Sensitivity
(%)

Single-
 head CC
 only
90 70 100 78 96 75 75
Single-
 head MLO
 only
89 70 100 78 93 73 73
Dual-head
 CC
109 85 108 84 105 82 84
Dual-head
 MLO
109 85 109 85 103 80 84
Single-
 head CC
 and MLO
97 76 108 84 101 79 80
Dual-head
 CC and
 MLO
117 91 117 91 111 87 90

Note—Total number of tumors present was 128. CC = craniocaudal, MLO = mediolateral oblique.