SPECT in the year 2000: basic principles

MW Groch, WD Erwin - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, 2000 - Soc Nuclear Med
Objective: SPECT has become a routine procedure in most nuclear medicine departments.
SPECT provides significant technical challenges for the nuclear medicine technologist, as …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative SPECT imaging: a review and recommendations by the Focus Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Computer and Instrumentation …

MS Rosenthal, J Cullom, W Hawkins… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1995 - Soc Nuclear Med
Thisartideis a reviewof the physicsprinciples, instrumentation and reconstructionmethods
behind SPECT imaging. Particular attention is paid to the mechanisms that can …

Recent advances in SPECT imaging

MT Madsen - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
SPECT is a rapidly changing field, and the past several years have produced new
developments in both hardware technology and image-processing algorithms. At the …

SPECT/CT imaging: clinical utility of an emerging technology

B Bybel, RC Brunken, FP DiFilippo, DR Neumann… - Radiographics, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been a mainstay of nuclear
medicine practice for several decades. More recently, combining the functional imaging …

[HTML][HTML] SPECT/CT technology

P Ritt, J Sanders, T Kuwert - Clinical and Translational Imaging, 2014 - Springer
The continuous development of SPECT over the past 50 years has led to remarkably
improved image quality and increased diagnostic confidence. The most influential …

Quantitative cardiac SPECT reconstruction with reduced image degradation due to patient anatomy

BMW Tsui, XD Zhao, GK Gregoriou… - … and Medical Imaging …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Patient anatomy has complicated effects on cardiac SPECT images. The authors
investigated reconstruction methods which substantially reduced these effects for improved …

[PDF][PDF] Relative impact of scatter, collimator response, attenuation, and finite spatial resolution corrections in cardiac SPECT

G El Fakhri, I Buvat, H Benali… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2000 - Soc Nuclear Med
Methods: Monte Carlo simulationsand real acquisitionof a" mTc cardiac phantom were
performed under comparable conditions. Simulated and acquired data were reconstructed …

The origins of SPECT and SPECT/CT

BF Hutton - European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular …, 2014 - Springer
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has a long history of development
since its initial demonstration by Kuhl and Edwards in 1963. Although clinical utility has …

Optimized acquisition and processing protocols for I-123 cardiac SPECT imaging

J Chen, EV Garcia, JR Galt, RD Folks… - Journal of nuclear …, 2006 - Springer
Background Deconvolution of septal penetration (DSP) has been developed to improve
quantification so as to allow the use of low-energy high-resolution collimators for iodine 123 …

SPECT/CT: an update on technological developments and clinical applications

M Ljungberg, PH Pretorius - The British journal of radiology, 2018 - birpublications.org
Functional nuclear medicine imaging with single-photon emission CT (SPECT) in
combination with anatomical CT has been commercially available since the beginning of …