Technological development and advances in single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography

Y Seo, C Mari, BH Hasegawa - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2008 - Elsevier
Single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) has
emerged during the past decade as a means of correlating anatomical information from CT …

Dedicated breast CT: initial clinical experience

KK Lindfors, JM Boone, TR Nelson, K Yang, ALC Kwan… - Radiology, 2008 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To prospectively and intraindividually compare dedicated breast computed
tomographic (CT) images with screen-film mammograms. Materials and Methods All patient …

Radionuclide methods and instrumentation for breast cancer detection and diagnosis

S Surti - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2013 - Elsevier
Breast cancer mammography is a well-acknowledged technique for patient screening due to
its high sensitivity. However, in addition to its low specificity the sensitivity of mammography …

Computed tomography for imaging the breast

JM Boone, ALC Kwan, K Yang, GW Burkett… - Journal of mammary …, 2006 - Springer
Despite the success of screening mammography contributing to the reduction of cancer
mortality, a number of other imaging techniques are being studied for breast cancer …

Technique factors and their relationship to radiation dose in pendant geometry breast CT

JM Boone, ALC Kwan, JA Seibert, N Shah… - Medical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The use of breast computed tomography (CT) as an alternative to mammography in some
patients is being studied at several institutions. However, the radiation dosimetry issues …

Evaluation of fully 3-D emission mammotomography with a compact cadmium zinc telluride detector

CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A compact, dedicated cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma camera coupled with a fully
three-dimensional (3-D) acquisition system may serve as a secondary diagnostic tool for …

Recent advances in iterative reconstruction for clinical SPECT/PET and CT

BF Hutton - Acta Oncologica, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Statistical iterative reconstruction is now widely used in clinical practice and has contributed
to significant improvement in image quality in recent years. Although primarily used for …

Advances in pinhole and multi-pinhole collimators for single photon emission computed tomography imaging

J Islamian, AR Azazrm, B Mahmoudian… - World journal of …, 2015 - thieme-connect.com
The collimator in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), is an important
part of the imaging chain. One of the most important collimators that used in research …

Primary, scatter, and penetration characterizations of parallel-hole and pinhole collimators for I-123 SPECT

A Könik, B Auer, J De Beenhouwer… - Physics in Medicine …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-pinhole (MPH) collimators are known to provide better trade-off between sensitivity and
resolution for preclinical, as well as for smaller regions in clinical SPECT imaging compared …

Evaluation of pinhole collimator materials for micron-resolution ex vivo SPECT

MP Nguyen, MC Goorden, C Kamphuis… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Pinhole collimation is widely recognized for offering superior resolution-sensitivity trade-off
in SPECT imaging of small subjects. The newly developed EXIRAD-3D autoradiography …