Dedicated CZT gamma cameras for nuclear cardiology

The gamma camera

10.1093/med/9780198759942.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Nikant Sabharwal ◽

Parthiban Arumugam ◽

Andrew Kelion

Keyword(s):

Quality Control ◽

Solid State ◽

Nuclear Cardiology ◽

Gamma Camera ◽

Sodium Iodide ◽

Performance Parameters ◽

Photomultiplier Tubes ◽

Gamma Cameras ◽

Lead Collimator ◽

Iodide Crystal

Nuclear cardiology imaging is traditionally performed on an Anger gamma camera. Its key component is a large, flat, circular or rectangular sodium iodide crystal, activated by non-radioactive thallium (NaI(Tl)). The side of the crystal facing the patient is covered with a lead collimator, while the side away from the patient is viewed by an array of photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). This chapter provides detail on the gamma camera, including information on crystals and collimators, PMTs, and electronics. Important measures of gamma camera performance parameters and quality control are covered in detail, and a section on dedicated solid-state cardiac gamma cameras is included.

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Methods and clinical applications in nuclear cardiology: a position statement

Nuklearmedizin ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1623996 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 41 (01) ◽

pp. 3-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

M. Schäfers

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Cardiology ◽

Clinical Medicine ◽

Imaging Techniques ◽

Cost Savings ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Position Statement ◽

Electron Beam Tomography ◽

Partial Functions ◽

Cost Benefit Ratio ◽

Medicine Today

SummaryNuclear cardiological procedures have paved the way for non-invasive diagnostics of various partial functions of the heart. Many of these functions cannot be visualised for diagnosis by any other method (e. g. innervation). These techniques supplement morphological diagnosis with regard to treatment planning and monitoring. Furthermore, they possess considerable prognostic relevance, an increasingly important issue in clinical medicine today, not least in view of the cost-benefit ratio.Our current understanding shows that effective, targeted nuclear cardiology diagnosis – in particular for high-risk patients – can contribute toward cost savings while improving the quality of diagnostic and therapeutic measures.In the future, nuclear cardiology will have to withstand mounting competition from other imaging techniques (magnetic resonance imaging, electron beam tomography, multislice computed tomography). The continuing development of these methods increasingly enables measurement of functional aspects of the heart. Nuclear radiology methods will probably develop in the direction of molecular imaging.

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Methods of test for Anger type gamma cameras

10.3403/00267701 ◽

1992 ◽

Keyword(s):

Gamma Cameras

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Position paper nuclear cardiology: Update 2008

Nuklearmedizin ◽

10.3413/nukmed-0220 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 48 (02) ◽

pp. 71-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

F. Bengel ◽

U. Büll ◽

W. Burchert ◽

P. Kies ◽

R. Kluge ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nuclear Medicine ◽

Nuclear Cardiology ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Position Paper ◽

Circulation Research ◽

Diagnostic Algorithms ◽

Clinical Diagnostic ◽

Common Position ◽

German Association

SummaryNuclear cardiology is well established in clinical diagnostic algorithms for many years. This is an update 2008 of the first common position paper of the German Association of Nuclear Medicine and the German Association of Cardiology, Heart and Circulation Research published in 2001 aiming at an overview of state-of-the-art scintigraphic methods.

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