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- Title
Scintillation cameras: A new clinical era has come.
- Authors
Taillefer, Raymond
- Abstract
Therefore, having a very sensitive imaging device, it is now possible to use the same imaging time than the one used with conventional gamma cameras but to decrease the injected dose of radionuclide by a significant factor, without modifying the overall diagnostic accuracy. The relatively low cost and easy installation of SPECT with the sodium iodide crystal scintillation detector camera (in comparison to a positron emission tomography imaging facility) makes it the most widely available nuclear cardiology imaging device in the world still today. There is no doubt that we are entering into a new clinical era where it is likely that conventional NaI crystal SPECT cameras will be progressively but irremediably replaced by CZT SPECT/CT cameras, giving the field on nuclear cardiology access to a wide variety of imaging protocols which can be tailored to the specific clinical needs. Reduced acquisition time for thallium myocardial perfusion imaging with large field cadmium-zinc-telluride SPECT/CT cameras: An equivalence study.
- Publication
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 4, p1942
- ISSN
1071-3581
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12350-021-02660-4