10.1055/b-0038-149740 8 SPECT and SPECT/CT for the Skeletal SystemHyewon Hyun, Chun K. Kim, and Katherine A. Zukotynski 8.1 Introduction Skeletal scintigraphy is one of the most commonly requested general nuclear…
10.1055/b-0038-149738 6 SPECT and SPECT/CT for the Respiratory SystemPaul J. Roach and Geoffrey P. Schembri 6.1 Introduction Since its first description by Wagner et al in 1964, 1 the planar…
10.1055/b-0038-149743 11 Selected Interesting SPECT and SPECT/CT CasesSamuel E. Almodóvar, Padma Manapragada, Katherine A. Zukotynski, and Chun K. Kim 11.1 Introduction This chapter provides several illustrative cases in which single-photon…
10.1055/b-0038-149741 9 SPECT/CT for Infection and InflammationChristopher J. Palestra 9.1 Introduction The detection and localization of inflammation and infection with nuclear medicine techniques have been studied for nearly half a…
10.1055/b-0038-149736 4 SPECT/CT for the Thyroid and Parathyroid Glands with CasesElisa Franquet-Elía and Kevin J. Donohoe 4.1 Introduction Single-photon emission computed tomography/ computed tomography (SPECT/CT) has substantially improved patient care…
10.1055/b-0038-149742 10 SPECT in ChildrenFrederick D. Grant 10.1 Introduction Soon after the availability of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), it was used for imaging children. 1 As SPECT cameras became…
10.1055/b-0038-149737 5 SPECT and SPECT/CT for the Cardiovascular SystemStephen J. Horgan and Sharmila Dorbala 5.1 Introduction Cardiac single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is widely used for the evaluation of myocardial…
10.1055/b-0038-149735 3 SPECT and SPECT/CT in NeuroscienceTarun Singhal and Chun K. Kim 3.1 Radiopharmaceuticals for Brain SPECT Imaging Brain perfusion agents: for example, technetium-99 m (99mTc)-ethyl cysteinate dimer (ECD) and…
10.1055/b-0038-149733 1 Basic Principles of SPECT and SPECT/CT and Quality ControlFrederic H. Fahey 1.1 Introduction Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) can provide a tomographic representation of the in vivo distribution…
10.1055/b-0038-149734 2 Radiopharmaceuticals for Clinical SPECT StudiesShankar Vallabhajoshula 2.1 Introduction George de Hevesy in the 1920s coined the terms radioindicator and radiotracer and introduced the tracer principle into biomedical sciences….
