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The Use of SPET in the Thorax

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The Clinical Applications of SPET

Part of the book series: Developments in Nuclear Medicine ((DNUM,volume 25))

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Thallium-201 has been in use for many years for the evaluation of the myocardium, it’s great advantage being the fact that it is possible to examine a patient on one day due to the fact that Thallium-201 shows rapid redistribution after injection at peak stress. In addition Thallium-201 is readily available and relatively non-expensive. Traditionally it has been used in a standard 3 projection protocol, namely anterior-posterior, left-anterior-oblique and left-lateral. The usual dose is being 74 MBq, which is relatively small and this together with the physical characteristics of Thallium-201 do not make it an optimal pharmaceutical for SPET imaging; the main drawback being the long acquisition time. However SPET imaging with Thallium-201 is widely used because of the cost-effectiveness and it’s capability to evaluate viable myocardium. In addition there are relatively large databases available for use in the so called Polar Images which is not the case in for example Technetium-99m-Hexamibi.

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Schönfeld, D.H.W. (1995). The Use of SPET in the Thorax. In: Cox, P.H., Pillay, M. (eds) The Clinical Applications of SPET. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 25. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0229-2_7

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