SPECT only images low-energy gamma rays less than 400 kilo-electron volts ... Professor Kataoka is now working towards developing a gamma-ray camera which works like the human eye.

He noted that the image quality was comparable to that recorded by the U-SPECT preclinical imaging system. The next steps. Looking further ahead, one potential evolution of the hybrid camera could be ...

PET scans detect gamma rays with a specific energy of 511 keV, while SPECT can only detect gamma rays at relatively lower energies because collimators used in SPECT become transparent for high ...

Images of 141 keV gamma rays from 99m Tc-DMSA (left) and 511 keV gamma rays from 18 F-FDG (right) detected simultaneously using the Compton camera. (Courtesy: T Nakano et al ). Researchers in Japan ...

Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

SPECT relies on detection of photons of a radioisotope (top panels). These photons transfer energy to the detector of a gamma camera. Because photons are emitted in all directions, a collimator is ...

PET scans detect gamma rays with a specific energy of 511 keV, while SPECT can only detect gamma rays at relatively lower energies because collimators used in SPECT become transparent for high ...

According to Siemens, SPECT/CT technologies have not been widely adopted, with many healthcare providers continuing to use SPECT-only gamma cameras.

An irregularity of the gamma camera causes what is known as a "ring artifact," as shown here. ... The same series of SPECT images as seen in sidebar Figure 1, ...

The New Ultra-Compact Medical Gamma-Ray Camera Fits in the Palm by Bidita Debnath on May 25 2017 11:27 PM. ... (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET).

Researchers invented a Compton camera of 580g which visualizes gamma rays of arbitrary energies, and succeeded in achieving a high-resolution, multicolor 3-D molecular image of a live mouse ...