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KMID : 1148920190530010057
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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
2019 Volume.53 No. 1 p.57 ~ p.63
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Comparative Cardiac Phantom Study Using Tc-99m/I-123 and Tl-201/I-123 Tracers with Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Detector-Based Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography
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Niimi Takanaga
Nanasato Mamoru
Sugimoto Mitsuo
Maeda Hisatoshi
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Abstract
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Objective: A recently introduced single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), based on cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) detectors (D-SPECT), supports high energy resolution for cardiac imaging. Importantly, the high energy resolution may allow simultaneous dual-isotope (SDI) imaging (e.g., using Tc-99m and I-123). We quantitatively evaluated Tc-99m/I-123 SDI imaging by D-SPECT in comparison with conventional T1-201/I-123.
Materials and Methods: Energy resolution was measured as a percentage of the full width at half maximum (FWHM) for Tc-99m, I-123, and Tl-201. The impact of cross-talk and reconstructed image contrast were quantified by measuring the contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), and the transmural defect contrast in the left ventricle wall (CTD) induced by a difference in energy, for combinations of Tc-99m/I-123 or Tl-201/I-123, using an RH-2 cardiac phantom. Corresponding measurement was also carried out in Anger SPECT (A-SPECT).
Results: The energy resolution of the D-SPECT system was 5.4%/5.1% for Tc-99m/I-123 and 5.4%/5.3% for Tl-201/I-123, which was approximately two times higher than the A-SPECT. No notable difference was confirmed in the CNRs of the two systems, but T1-201/I-123 showed overall higher value than Tc-99m/I-123. Compared to A-SPECT, CTD of D-SPECT significantly increased with both Tc-99m/I-123 and T1-201/I-123 (p ?0.05).
Conclusion: D-SPECT was considered to be capable of performing high-quality SDI imaging using Tc-99m/I-123.
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KEYWORD
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CZT detector, Energy resolution, Simultaneous dual-isotope SPECT, Cardiac imaging
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