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Fig. 4C. 56-year-old woman with microcalcifications in right breast.
Eye-fixation record of experienced mammographer scanning A. Total
search time was 34 sec. Lesion area is again shown by large circle with thin
lines. Mammographer focused attention on true lesion, cluster of
microcalcifications. Attention was fixated on craniocaudal view almost
immediately on presentation. Mammographer crossed over to mediolateral oblique
view and fixated lesion within 16 sec. During entire search, mammographer
fixated lesion in both images for dwell times greater than 1000 msec,
indicated by thick-line fixation-cluster circles overlapping thin-line lesion
circles. Mammographer also fixated same subareolar region in lateral breast on
craniocaudal view that trainee fixated for 1000 msec, but mammographer did not
report abnormal finding for this location. True lesion, however, was reported
as microcalcification cluster at end of search.