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Single Photon Tomographic Imaging

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Abstract

Single Photon Emission Tomographic (SPET) imaging overcomes the loss of contrast suffered by planar images, which impairs the detectability of small lesions, particularly those which are deep lying and which exhibit reduced radionuclide accumulation. The reconstructed data can also be reoriented into, for example, coronal or sagittal sections, for better visualisation of the relative positions of activity distributions, which may help to localise the position of abnormalities more accurately. The technique also has the potential to quantify the regional distribution of activity, which allows representation of the activity distribution in units of MBq ml-1 rather than just counts per pixel, and thus better indicates organ function and radiation dosimetry (Rosenthal et al. 1995; Fleming and Alaamer 1996). A number of acquisition and processing factors are peculiar to SPET and, although software for single photon tomographic imaging was introduced in the mid 1980s, a range of imaging protocols are in use and are sometimes inappropriate, which demonstrates the on-going need to encourage the correct use of the instrumentation (Heikkinen et al. 1999). The image data is heavily and sophisticatedly processed. This includes attenuation correction and scatter compensation which can improve image resolution and contrast, significantly. It is possible to reconstruct images that are far from optimum. Artefacts, which would have been easily recognised in the raw images, can become camouflaged.

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Abbreviations

2D:

two dimension

3D:

three dimension

CT:

computed tomography

ERNA:

equilibrium radionuclide angiography

FOV:

field of view

FWHM:

full width at half maximum

LEGP:

low energy general purpose

LEHR:

low energy high resolution

LVEF:

left ventricular ejection fraction

MPI:

myocardial perfusion imaging

PHA:

pulse height analyser

ROI:

region of interest

SPET:

single photon emission tomography

TCR:

transmission count rate to emission crosstalk count rate

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Hamilton, D. (2004). Single Photon Tomographic Imaging. In: Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06588-4_16

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