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Improved Longitudinal and Transverse Single-Photon Emission Computed Body Tomography Using an Anger Tomographic Scanner

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Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine

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An important limitation in the clinical use of single-photon emission computed body tomography has been the inaccessibility of necessary instrumentation. The system to be described here overcomes the above limitations by combining instruments which are commercially available and already found in many institutions. This combination becomes a single-photon emission computed tomography system, with capabilities for whole body screening, providing multiple longitudinal and transverse tomograms.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

    E. V. Garcia & J. E. Diaz

  2. Division of Radiological Sciences, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    E. V. Garcia & J. E. Diaz

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  1. E. V. Garcia
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  1. Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Radioonkologie und Nuklearmedizin, Rämistraße 100, 8006, Zürich, Switzerland

    Wolfgang Horst

  2. Division of Nuclear Medicine, John Hopkins Medical Center, 615 North Wolfe Street, 212005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Henry N. Wagner Jr.

  3. Division of Nuclear Medicine, John Hopkins Medical Institutions, 615 North Wolfe Street, 212005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Julia W. Buchanan

  4. Division of Radiation Health, John Hopkins Medical Institutions, 615 North Wolfe Street, 212005, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Julia W. Buchanan

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Garcia, E.V., Diaz, J.E. (1980). Improved Longitudinal and Transverse Single-Photon Emission Computed Body Tomography Using an Anger Tomographic Scanner. In: Horst, W., Wagner, H.N., Buchanan, J.W. (eds) Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67575-1_6

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