HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Chang, W. Articles by Henkin, R. E. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Chang, W. Articles by Henkin, R. E.

Seven-Pinhole Multigated Tomography and Its Application to Blood-Pool Imaging: Technical Parameters

Foster G. McGaw Hospital-Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois

Correspondence: For reprints contact: W. Chang, PhD, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Loyola Univ. Medical Ctr, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood, IL 60153.

ABSTRACT

The application of seven-pinhole tomography has been predominantly to thallium-201 myocardial imaging. In view of the stationary nature of the collimator, with all views accumulating simultaneously, seven-pinhole tomography can be adapted to dynamic cardiac imaging, namely, multigated blood-pool imaging. Existing reconstruction software was modified to process the gated blood-pool data. The performance parameters of the seven-pinhole system were investigated at Tc-99m energy. This work provides an additional understanding of the seven-pinhole system as well as its potential application to abnormalities of ventricular wall motion or the quantitation of other cardiac parameters from reconstructed data.

This article has been cited by other articles:

				T. Funk, D. L. Kirch, J. E. Koss, E. Botvinick, and B. H. Hasegawa A Novel Approach to Multipinhole SPECT for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging J. Nucl. Med., April 1, 2006; 47(4): 595 - 602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]