ReviewThe British journal of radiology2018
SPECT/CT: an update on technological developments and clinical applications.
Review in The British journal of radiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 125 citations in OpenAlex.
- Radiopharmaceuticals for PET and SPECT Imaging: A Literature Review over the Last Decade.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Pooled it
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- Instrumentation Digital Twins in PET and SPECT Imaging: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Directions.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2026Review
- SPECT/CT imaging in thyroid eye disease: an emerging role in assessing sub-clinical activity.Frontiers in ophthalmology · 2026Review
- Single photon γ-ray imaging with high energy and spatial resolution perovskite semiconductor for nuclear medicine.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Left ventricular ejection fraction evaluation byThe international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2025Article
- An update on recent advances in fluorescent materials for fluorescence molecular imaging: a review.RSC advances · 2025Review
- From morphology to single-cell molecules: high-resolution 3D histology in biomedicine.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
- Current status and future prospects of molecular imaging in targeting the tumor immune microenvironment.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Relationship between physical parameters and visual analysis for assessment of image quality: a multi-center and multi-vendor phantom study in brain SPECT.Asia Oceania journal of nuclear medicine & biology · 2025Article
- Effects of particulate air pollution exposure on lung-brain axis and related miRNAs modulation in mouse models.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Evaluation of the SwiftScan mode in bone single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging: effect on imaging quality and a semi-quantitative analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Radiation Detectors and Sensors in Medical Imaging.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Technological Advances in SPECT and SPECT/CT Imaging.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Simulated Fewer-Angle SPECT/CT Imaging Protocol for Parathyroid Adenoma.Journal of nuclear medicine technology · 2024Article
- Effect of kilovoltage and quality reference mAs on CT-based attenuation correction inEJNMMI physics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Functional nuclear medicine imaging with single-photon emission CT (SPECT) in combination with anatomical CT has been commercially available since the beginning of this century. The combination of the two modalities has improved both the sensitivity and specificity of many clinical applications and CT in conjunction with SPECT that allows for spatial overlay of the SPECT data on good anatomy images. Introduction of diagnostic CT units as part of the SPECT/CT system has also potentially allowed for a more cost-efficient use of the equipment. Most of the SPECT systems available are based on the well-known Anger camera principle with NaI(Tl) as a scintillation material, parallel-hole collimators and multiple photomultiplier tubes, which, from the centroid of the scintillation light, determine the position of an event. Recently, solid-state detectors using cadmium-zinc-telluride became available and clinical SPECT cameras employing multiple pinhole collimators have been developed and introduced in the market. However, even if new systems become available with better hardware, the SPECT reconstruction will still be affected by photon attenuation and scatter and collimator response. Compensation for these effects is needed even for qualitative studies to avoid artefacts leading to false positives. This review highlights the recent progress for both new SPECT cameras systems as well as for various data-processing and compensation methods.
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