Aim: Assess the role of hybrid modality SPECT/CT versus planar scintigraphy in sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification patients with breast cancer. Methods: Planar and were performed 23 women cancer (mean age 59.5 years range 25 - 82 years) invasive (T0, T1 T2), without clinical evidence axillary metastases (N0) no remote (M0), radiocolloid was injected four subareolar sites. images separately...

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 prognosis of coronary artery disease. Industry has developed innovative designs for dedicated cardiac SPECT cameras that constrain the entire detector area to imaging just the heart. New software that recovers image resolut...

In nuclear medicine, there are two methods of imaging, planar and tomography. Single photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) shows better image details and therefore is influenced more by image parameters such as resolution, uniformity, sensitivity, etc. Manufacturers provide customers with data which are obtained by complicated and sometimes secret methods. Marketing companies te...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to compare a routine bone SPECT/CT protocol using CT reconstructed with filtered backprojection (FBP) with an optimized protocol using low-dose CT images reconstructed with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASiR). METHODS In this prospective study, enrolled patients underwent bone SPECT/CT, with 1 SPECT acquisition followed by 2 randomized...

introduction: ordered subset expectation maximization (osem), is an effective iterative method for spect image reconstruction. the aim of this study is the evaluation of the role of system matrix in osem image reconstruction method using four different physical beam radiation models with three detection configurations. methods: spect was done with an arc of 180 degree in 32 projections after i...

Emission tomography provides three-dimensional, quantitative images of the distribution of radiotracers used to mark physiological, metabolic, or pathological processes. Quantitative single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) requires correction for the image-degrading effects due to photon attenuation and scatter. Phantom experiments have shown that radioactive concentrations can be as...

Background: Hairline rib fracture commonly happens after blunt trauma, and it is hard to be detected by X-ray. Many methods can used, among them, the hybrid image of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (CT) seems produce higher sensitivity for diagnosis. Case presentation: A 63-year-old man came our rehabilitation clinic a vehicle accident 25 days earlier. He had multiple plain f...

osteoma is a benign bone-forming tumor that usually arises in the craniofacial bones and rarely in the long bones. clavicular involvement is extremely rare. we report a 51-year-old woman with osteoma of the left clavicle. radiograph of the left shoulder showed a well-defined lobulated blastic mass in the proximal and mid-portion of the left clavicle. bone scintigraphy was performed 4 hours afte...

Introduction: SPECT is a diagnostic imaging technique the main disadvantage of which is the existence of Poisson noise. So far, different methods have been used by scientists to improve SPECT images. The Wavelet Transform is a new method for de-noising which is widely used for noise reduction and quality enhancement of images. The purpose of this paper is evaluation of noise reduction in SPECT ...

the diagnostic accuracy of single photon emission computed tomography (spect) is profoundly influenced by attenuation phenomenon. soft tissue attenuation degrades cardiac spect image quality, thereby decreasing the possibility of the detection of the lesions. a variety of correction techniques based on different assumptions have been used to reduce the impact of attenuation. several types of sy...