The origins of SPECT and SPECT/CT.
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Abstract
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has a long history of development since its initial demonstration by Kuhl and Edwards in 1963. Although clinical utility has been dominated by the rotating gamma camera, there have been many technological innovations with the recent popularity of organ-specific dedicated SPECT systems. The combination of SPECT and CT evolved from early transmission techniques used for attenuation correction with the initial commercial systems predating the release of PET/CT. The development and acceptance of SPECT/CT has been relatively slow with continuing debate as to what cost/performance ratio is justified. Increasingly, fully diagnostic CT is combined with SPECT so as to facilitate optimal clinical utility.
Medical subject headings
- Gamma Cameras
- Multimodal Imaging
- Nuclear Medicine
- Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed