The clinical utilities of multi-pinhole single photon emission computed tomography. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is an important imaging modality for various applications in nuclear medicine. The use of multi-pinhole (MPH) collimators can provide superior resolution-sensitivity trade-off when imaging small field-of-view compared to conventional parallel-hole and fan-beam collimators. Besides the very successful application in small animal imaging, there has been a resurgence of the use of MPH collimators for clinical cardiac and brain studies, as well as other small field-of-view applications. This article reviews the basic principles of MPH collimators and introduces currently available and proposed clinical MPH SPECT systems.

publication date

  • October 1, 2020

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7495312

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84989840889

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1038/srep34197

PubMed ID

  • 33014732

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 10

issue

  • 10