Dual radioisotopes simultaneous SPECT of 99mTc-tetrofosmin and 123I-BMIPP using a semiconductor detector
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OBJECTIVES The energy resolution of a cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) solid-state semiconductor detector is about 5%, and is superior to the resolution of the conventional Anger type detector which is 10%. Also, the window width of the high-energy part and of the low-energy part of a photo peak window can be changed separately. In this study, we used a semiconductor detector and examined the effects of changing energy window widths for (99m)Tc and (123)I simultaneous SPECT. METHODS The energy "centerline" for (99m)Tc was set at 140.5 keV and that for (123)I at 159.0 keV. For (99m)Tc, the "low-energy-window width" was set to values that varied from 3% to 10% of 140.5 keV and the "high-energy-window width" were independently set to values that varied from 3% to 6% of 140.5 keV. For (123)I, the "low energy-window-width" varied from 3% to 6% of 159.0 keV and the high-energy-window width from 3% to 10% of 159 keV. In this study we imaged the cardiac phantom, using single or dual radionuclide, changing energy window width, and comparing SPECT counts as well as crosstalk ratio. RESULTS The contamination to the (123)I window from (99m)Tc (the crosstalk) was only 1% or less with cutoffs of 4% at lower part and 6% at upper part of 159KeV. On the other hand, the crosstalk from (123)I photons into the (99m)Tc window mostly exceeded 20%. Therefore, in order to suppress the rate of contamination to 20% or less, (99m)Tc window cutoffs were set at 3% in upper part and 7% at lower part of 140.5 KeV. The semiconductor detector improves separation accuracy of the acquisition inherently at dual radionuclide imaging. In, this phantom study we simulated dual radionuclide simultaneous SPECT by (99m)Tc-tetrofosmin and (123)I-BMIPP. CONCLUSION We suggest that dual radionuclide simultaneous SPECT of (99)mTc and (123)I using a CZT semiconductor detector is possible employing the recommended windows.
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Dual radioisotopes simultaneous SPECT of 99mTc-tetrofosmin and 123I-BMIPP using a semiconductor detector.
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