AIM: To evaluate the clinical utility of hepatic clearance (HC) measured with technetium-99m-diethylenetriaminepenta-acetic acid-galactosyl human serum albumin (Tc-GSA) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) to estimate the degree of liver

we present a 55-year old male patient who was subjected to whole body skeletal scintigraphy for metastatic work up of urinary bladder cancer. whole body 99mtc-methylene diphosphonate (mdp) skeletal scintigraphy was performed. that revealed no skeletal metastasis in the entire body skeleton and normally visualized left kidney with empty right renal fossa. additionally tracer activity collected i...

skeletal involvement is the second most common site of metastases after lymph nodal metastases in patients with prostate cancer. the skeletal metastases from prostate cancer are osteoblastic in nature and show increased tracer avidity on the bone scan. focal tracer avid lesion in skeleton especially in skull requires the careful examination by further investigation. the patients with skull meta...

In this paper, we extend a nonnegatively constrained iterative method and three stopping rules for its iterations to the medical imaging inverse problems of computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); the iterative method and stopping rules were introduced for use in astronomical imaging. The paper begins with a brief int...

Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is an important biomedical imaging modality. However, since gamma cameras are expensive and bulky, truncated projection data are either preferred or unavoidable. Inspired by the recent results on interior tomography in the x-ray CT field, here we present the interior SPECT approach for exact and stable reconstruction of a region of interest (RO...

In single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) one is interested in reconstructing the activity distribution f of some radiopharmaceutical. The data gathered suffer from attenuation due to the tissue density μ. Each imaged slice incorporates noisy sample values of the nonlinear attenuated Radon transform A(f,μ)(ω, s) = ∫ ∞ −∞ f (sω⊥ + tω) exp (

This article discusses the protocol for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy performed with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Indications for SPECT are listed with consideration given to the results of the increasingly more common angio-CT examinations of the coronary arteries (multislice computed tomography). The paper also presents basic information about interpreting the resul...

Coronary computed tomography (CT) enables noninvasive, highly diagnostic visualization of coronary artery stenosis. However, identifying culprit lesions in patients with multivessel coronary artery stenoses is difficult. Cardiac single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) shows ischemic regions with high diagnostic accuracy, although evaluating the vascular territory supplied by each cor...

This image based series comprises of a quiz pertaining to the identification of salient anatomical structures expected to be seen at a given level on the computed tomography (CT) followed by examples of multiple representative pathologies that can be seen at the same level in a routine clinical setting. It is expected that this will improve confidence of nuclear physicians in interpretation of ...

Skeletal involvement is the second most common site of metastases after lymph nodal metastases in patients with prostate cancer. The skeletal metastases from prostate cancer are osteoblastic in nature and show increased tracer avidity on the bone scan. Focal tracer avid lesion in skeleton especially in skull requires the careful examination by further investigation. The patients with skull meta...