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ReviewCurrent cardiology reports2013

Recent advances in cardiac SPECT instrumentation and system design.

Mark F Smith

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Review in Current cardiology reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. The state of the future is solid.Journal of nuclear cardiology : official publication of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology · 2016
    Article
  3. Nuclear cardiology: 2014 innovations and developments.Methodist DeBakey cardiovascular journal
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Mark F SmithDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 22 South Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. msmith7@umm.edu

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in clinical cardiac SPECT instrumentation are reviewed from a systems perspective. New hardware technologies include pixelated scintillator and semiconductor detector elements; photodetectors such as position-sensitive photomultiplier tubes (PSPMT), avalanche photodiodes (APD) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPM); and novel cardiac collimation methods. There are new approaches for positioning detectors and controlling their motion during cardiac imaging. Software technology advances include iterative image reconstruction with modeling of Poisson statistics and depth-dependent collimator response. These new technologies enable faster acquisitions, the lowering of administered activity and radiation dose, and improved image resolution. Higher sensitivity collimators are a significant factor enabling faster acquisitions. Several clinical systems incorporating new technologies are discussed and different system designs can achieve similar performance. With detector elements such as APDs, SiPMs and semiconductors that are insensitive to magnetic fields, the potential for cardiac SPECT imagers that are MRI compatible opens up new frontiers in clinical cardiac research and patient care.

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Equipment DesignHeartHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedInventionsTomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

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