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Nuclear Cardiology: SPECT and PET

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Nuclear cardiology utilizes radioactive tracers to image primarily physiology as opposed to anatomy. Its two key imaging techniques, single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET), offer tradeoffs in terms of ­availability, cost, artifacts, quantification, and complexity. This chapter discusses the physiologic signals of interest in nuclear cardiology, from their acquisition to processing to reproducibility and noise.

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Johnson, N.P., Leonard, S.M., Gould, K.L. (2010). Nuclear Cardiology: SPECT and PET. In: Goldberger, J., Ng, J. (eds) Practical Signal and Image Processing in Clinical Cardiology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-515-4_15

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