RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Effect of Pinhole Collimator Masking: A New Consideration for Thyroid Imaging
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 111
OP 112
VO 11
IS 3
A1 Lewis, Sidney
A1 Park, H.M.
YR 1983
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/11/3/111.abstract
AB When pinhole thyroid scintigraphy is performed using a large field scintillation camera, what you see may not be what you think you see. Using a standard thyroid phantom and a cobalt-57 ruler-marker, we evaluated the actual field of view of a large-field camera-pinhole system. Because the design of the collimator masks the periphery of the large crystal, the actual useful field was markedly restricted to the center. This may be a potentially serious pitfall in thyroid scintigraphy since the field cut is not apparent on images. This pitfall can be avoided by always using the “zoom” feature for this pinhole imaging system.