“…These simulations encompassed the broad range of clinically‐relevant breast compressed thicknesses (
), normal tissue uptake concentrations (
), spherical and ellipsoid tumor diameters (
,
,
), tumor distances from detectors (
), and tumor concentrations (
) observed in our practice with 99m Tc‐sestamibi imaging, as well as some extreme conditions for theoretical modeling. Compressed breasts were simulated by rectangular 15 by 15 by
cm ICRU‐44 soft tissue block, ranging in thickness between 4 and 12 cm in 2 cm intervals
7 . In all acquisitions, the detector heads were placed along the z‐dimension immediately adjacent to the simulated breast (Figure 2).…”