A comparison of rotating slant hole collimator and rotating camera for single photon emission tomography of the heart

Abstract

Measurements were made on the tomographic imaging abilities of a rotating slant hole collimator and a rotating scintillation camera system using a standard heart phantom and thallium-201. This allowed a comparison to be made between these and published results for conventional imaging and the seven pinhole technique under standardised conditions. Although better intraplanar resolutions were obtained with the rotating slant hole, the rotating camera was found to give superior definition of a defect and less propagation between reconstructed sections of the phantom.

The early years of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT): an anthology of selected reminiscences

“…Many of these important contributions were published in Physics in Medicine and Biology (PMB). Selected PMB articles on SPECT include Flower et al (1981, Chesser andGemmell (1982), Todd-Pokropek (1983), Myers et al (1983), Webb et al (1983), Tanaka et al (1984), Webb (1985), Axelsson et al (1987), Floyd et al 1987, Laird and Williams (1987, Mills and Delchar (1988).…”