Cardiac dedicated ultrafast SPECT cameras: new designs and clinical implications

EV Garcia, TL Faber, FP Esteves - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) using nuclear cardiology techniques has been widely
applied in clinical practice because of its well-documented value in the diagnosis and …

Advances in SPECT camera software and hardware: currently available and new on the horizon

EG DePuey - Journal of nuclear cardiology, 2012 - Elsevier
A long-standing limitation of radionuclide myocardial perfusion SPECT is its relatively
lengthy acquisition time, as compared to stress echocardiography and cardiac CT. The …

Advances in technical aspects of myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging

PJ Slomka, JA Patton, DS Berman… - Journal of nuclear …, 2009 - Springer
Although myocardial perfusion SPECT (MPS) imaging is widely used in current clinical
practice, it suffers from some fundamental limitations including long image acquisition, low …

Solid-state detector SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

PJ Slomka, RJH Miller, LH Hu, G Germano… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
There has been an evolutionary leap in SPECT imaging with the advent of camera systems
that use solid-state crystals and novel collimator designs configured specifically for cardiac …

Impact of a new ultrafast CZT SPECT camera for myocardial perfusion imaging: fewer equivocal results and lower radiation dose

M Mouden, JR Timmer, JP Ottervanger… - European journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose The new ultrafast cardiac single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
cameras with cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT)-based detectors are faster and produce higher …

Compared performance of high-sensitivity cameras dedicated to myocardial perfusion SPECT: a comprehensive analysis of phantom and human images

L Imbert, S Poussier, PR Franken… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
Differences in the performance of cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) cameras or collimation
systems that have recently been commercialized for myocardial SPECT remain unclear. In …

Advances in quantitative perfusion SPECT imaging

EP Ficaro, JR Corbett - Journal of nuclear Cardiology, 2004 - Springer
Quantitative software for myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed
tomography (SPECT) has advanced significantly over the last 25 years. The strength and …

High-speed myocardial perfusion imaging: initial clinical comparison with conventional dual detector anger camera imaging

T Sharir, S Ben-Haim, K Merzon, V Prochorov… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2008 - jacc.org
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI)
with high-speed single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with conventional …

Contemporary cardiac SPECT imaging—innovations and best practices: an information statement from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology

BG Abbott, JA Case, S Dorbala… - Circulation …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) performed using Single Photon Emission Computed
Tomography (SPECT) remains the most common procedure in nuclear cardiology, owing to …

[PDF][PDF] Operator-less processing of myocardial perfusion SPECT studies

G Germano, PB Kavanagh, J Chen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1995 - Soc Nuclear Med
Perfusion SPECT Studies Page 1 dataset while an upper and lower reconstruction limit is
chosen. The reasons for limiting the number of recon structed images are twofold. First, doing …