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Current Status and Limitations of Single Photon Emission Imaging

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Single photon tomography dates from the early 1960’s when the first transverse section tomographs were presented by Kuhl and Edwards (1) using a rectilinear scanner and simple back-projection methods. With the availability of computer systems and the impetus of computer assisted tomography using transmitted X-rays, nuclear medicine instruments were modified and a number of mathematical approaches to tomographic reconstruction were developed in the early 1970’s (2–8). Major activities of the past few years have been in three distinct approaches to instrumentation and methodology:

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    The use of specialized tomographic devices which give single transverse sections with potentially good resolution or multiple noncontiguous sections (9–22);

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    The use of single or dual gamma cameras for acquisition of multiangular data (23–31);

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    The use of limited angular range devices involving special collimators for commercial gamma cameras, e.g., time coded aperture methods (32); multiple pinhole apertures (33–35); Fresnel aperture (36,37); and the rotating quadrant slant hole collimator (38).

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Budinger, T.F. (1983). Current Status and Limitations of Single Photon Emission Imaging. In: Reba, R.C., Goodenough, D.J., Davidson, H.F. (eds) Diagnostic Imaging in Medicine. NATO ASI Series, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6810-3_13

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