Description of a simultaneous emission-transmission CT system

Hasegawa, B.H.; Gingold, Eric L.; Reilly, Susan M.; Liew, Soo Chin; Cann, Christopher E.

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“…The resulting CT images then can be calibrated to produce a patient-specific map of linear attenuation coefficients calculated for the energy of the radionuclide photons. [21][22][23]29,34,[42][43][44] In this way, the CT data from a dual-modality imaging system facilitates, and in some ways simplifies, the process of correcting the radionuclide image for photon attenuation.…”

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“…However these concepts were never reduced to practice or implemented in either an experimental or a clinical setting. 56 In late 1980's and early 1990's, Hasegawa et al 23,26,57,58 at the University of California, San Francisco, pioneered the development of dedicated emission/transmission imaging systems which could record both radionuclide and x-ray data for correlated functional/structural imaging. The first prototype, developed by Lang et al 26,58 used an array of HPGe detectors ( Figure 2) with sufficient energy discrimination and count-rate performance to discriminate g-rays emitted by an internally distributed radiopharmaceutical from x-rays transmitted through the body from an external x-ray source.…”

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“…108 SPECT/CT systems with a small segmented high-purity germanium detector operated in pulse-counting mode for simultaneous x-ray and radionuclide imaging. 23,26,57,59 A clinical prototype SPECT/CT system ( Figure 4) also was configured at UCSF by installing a GE X/RT SPECT camera and GE 9800 CT scanner in tandem with a common patient table, 21,22,42,69 and was used for studies on both large animals and patients. The first dual-modality imaging system designed for routine clinical use was the Millennium VG ( Figure 10) introduced by General Electric Healthcare Technologies (Waukesha, WI) in 1999.…”

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“…Several different CT-based attenuation correction techniques have been developed [21][22][23]29,34,[42][43][44] and are reviewed in chapter 6. As an example, the technique developed by Blankespoor et al 22,81 obtains CT calibration measurements from a phantom with cylindrical inserts containing water, fatequivalent (ethanol), and bone equivalent material (K 2 HPO 4 ).…”

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“…16,17 With the goal of improving the correlation of different types of image data, other investigators have developed instrumentation which integrate both x-ray and radionuclide imaging is in a single device. 1,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] This technique, often called dual-modality imaging, can combine a PET or SPECT system with a CT scanner, using a common patient table, computer, and gantry so that both the x-ray and radionuclide image data are acquired sequentially without removing the patient from the scanner. This technique thereby produces anatomical and functional images with the patient in the same position and during a single procedure, which simplifies the image registration and fusion processes.…”

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Description of a simultaneous emission-transmission CT system

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Dual-Modality Imaging: More Than the Sum of its Components

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