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Usefulness of dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick nal crystals for nuclear oncology: Comparison with dedicated PET camera and conventional gamma camera with thin NaI crystals

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Aim: A comparative study of the images obtained with a dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals (19 mm), a dedicated PET camera with BGO crystals and a conventional gamma camera with thin NaI crystals (9.5 mm) was conducted to clarify the clinical feasibility of a dualhead coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals.Methods: FDG images of 27 patients with malignant tumors were obtained by means of a dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystal and a dedicated PET camera with BGO crystals. The images of bone scintigraphy in 10 cancer patients obtained with the dual-head coincidence gamma camera were compared with those taken by a conventional dual-head gamma camera with thin NaI crystals.Results: Patient-basis sensitivity in 27 patients with neoplasms and lesion-basis sensitivity of the dual-head coincidence gamma camera and the dedicated PET camera were 74.1% and 85.2% (n.s.), 66.7% and 72.2% (n.s.), respectively. The tumor to background FDG uptake ratio derived from the coincidence gamma camera was significantly lower than that derived from the dedicated PET camera (mean ±s.d.; 3.48±3.77 vs. 8.12±8.92, p<0.0001), but the tumor to background FDG uptake ratio obtained with both methods correlated well (r=0.84, p <0.001). Similar whole body bone scans were obtained with the dual-head coincidence gamma camera and the conventional dual-head gamma camera in all 10 patients.Conclusion: These results suggest that the dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick NaI crystals has potentially high clinical applicability for community hospitals.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine, 3-39-22, Showa-machi, 371-8511, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

    Tomio Inoue, Noboru Oriuchi, Keiko Koyama, Akihiro Ichikawa, Katsumi Tomiyoshi, Noriko Sato & Keigo Endo

  2. Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Gunma University School of Medicine, 3-39-22, Showa-machi, 371-8511, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

    Kunio Matsubara & Jun Aoki

  3. Department of Medical Information, Gunma Prefectural College of Health Sciences, Gunma, Japan, Japan

    Hideki Suzuki

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Inoue, T., Oriuchi, N., Koyama, K. et al. Usefulness of dual-head coincidence gamma camera with thick nal crystals for nuclear oncology: Comparison with dedicated PET camera and conventional gamma camera with thin NaI crystals. Ann Nucl Med 15, 141–148 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988605

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