SPECT Acquisition Parameters
Parameter | Standard or optional |
Camera type | |
NaI(Tl) Anger multidetector | Standard |
CZT or CsI(Tl) dedicated cardiac camera | Optional |
Energy peak | |
201Tl: 70 and 167 keV | Standard |
99mTc: 140 keV | Standard |
Energy window | |
201Tl: 30% and 20% | Standard |
99mTc: 20% | Standard |
Collimator | |
LEHR 99mTc-labeled agents | Standard |
Converging | Optional |
Multipinhole | Optional |
Patient position | |
Supine | Standard |
Prone | Optional |
Sitting | Optional |
Reclined | Optional |
Camera set-up of 45° RAO to 45° LPO | Standard |
180° camera orbit | Standard |
Circular or noncircular orbit | Standard |
Pixel size of 6.4 ± 0.4 mm | Standard |
64 projections for 99mTc-labeled agents; 32 for 201Tl | Standard |
Injection-to-scan time | |
99mTc agents, rest: 30–45 min p.i. | Standard |
99mTc agents, stress: 15 min p.i. (exercise) or 30–45 min p.i. (pharm stress) | Standard |
Thallium, rest: 20 min p.i. | Standard |
Thallium, stress: 10–15 min p.i. (both exercise and pharm stress) | Standard |
Acquisition type | |
Step and shoot | Standard |
Continuous dynamic SPECT | Optional |
64 × 64 matrix | Standard |
Time per projection | |
Rest: 25 s | Standard |
Stress: 20 s | Standard |
Electrocardiography-gated | Standard |
Frames per cycle | |
8 | Standard |
16 | Optional |
32 | Optional |
100% R–R interval | Standard |
LEHR = low-energy high resolution; RAO = right anterior oblique; LPO = left anterior oblique; p.i. = after injection; pharm = pharmacologic.