EANM procedural guidelines for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy using cardiac-centered gamma cameras

F Hyafil, A Gimelli, RHJA Slart, P Georgoulias… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
An increasing number of Nuclear Medicine sites in Europe are using cardiac-centered
gamma cameras for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS). Three cardiac-centered …

Differences in attenuation pattern in myocardial SPECT between CZT and conventional gamma cameras

J Oddstig, E Martinsson, J Jögi, H Engblom… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Springer
Background In myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI), single-photon emission tomography
(SPECT) soft-tissue attenuation by the abdomen, breasts, and lateral chest wall may create …

Diagnostic implications of CZT SPECT and impact of CT attenuation correction

A Peters, J Kumar, PV Patil - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 2019 - Springer
In the current issue, Kennedy et al. 1 further validate cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) SPECT,
including the use of customized databases for automated perfusion scoring. They also …

Gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging with cadmium-zinc-telluride detectors allows real-time assessment of dobutamine-stress-induced wall motion …

R Nkoulou, M Wolfrum, AP Pazhenkottil… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) during high dobutamine stress (HD)
by real-time gated-SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) on a cadmium-zinc-telluride …

Attenuation correction in multipinhole-CZT gamma camera: Differences in attenuation pattern in myocardial SPECT between CZT and conventional gamma cameras …

VM Moncayo, J Galt - Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Practitioners of nuclear cardiology become familiar with their equipment. This is true for
conventional SPECT systems as well as high-sensitivity systems with unique detectors and …

Impact of pinhole collimation on SPECT image quality metrics, and methods for patient-specific assessment of noise and standardization of imaging protocols

SG Cuddy-Walsh - 2019 - repository.library.carleton.ca
Dedicated cardiac pinhole SPECT camera designs offer improvements in overall sensitivity,
thereby enabling the use of lower injected radiotracer activity and shorter imaging times than …