1) Understand how cardiac SPECT studies are acquired. 2) Understand how cardiac SPECT studies are reconstructed and what corrections are required. 3) Understand how cardiac SPECT studies are analyzed. 4) Become familiar with cardiac SPECT instrumentation.
Cardiac SPECT is the most common nuclear medicine procedure and it contributes nearly 85% of the radiation dose associated with nuclear medicine imaging. In this presentation, the instrumentation and algorithms associated with cardiac SPECT will be reviewed. We begin with conventional general purpose SPECT systems that rely on parallel collimation along with the associated special purpose cardiac SPECT systems that are based on the conventional approach. Recent advances in SPECT instrumentation have made avaiable cardiac systems that rely on novel collimation and detector systems and these will also be reviewed. SPECT reconstruction approaches will be discussed including methods for motion, scatter and attenuation correction. Commercially available resolution recovery software for improving image quality and potentially reducing patient dose will round out the presentation..
Madsen, M,
SPECT Imaging of the Heart. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
http://archive.rsna.org/2014/11000544.html
