title: 360 degrees or 180 degrees for bone SPECT of the spine?
abstract: Acquisitions of 360 degrees are usually performed for bone single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). However, the spine is a peripheral and median structure, it therefore seemed interesting to compare the 360 degrees and the posterior 180 degrees SPECT images. In a phantom study and in 25 adult patients, the 360 degrees SPECT images were compared with the posterior 180 degrees images obtained during the same acquisition: the posterior 180 degrees images are at least equivalent to the 360 degrees images. With a reduction in the examination time, SPECT could become easier to perform, especially in patients suffering from back pain.
authors.affiliation: Service des Radioisotopes, Hôpital Universitaire Saint Pierre, Bruxelles, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tondeur
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ham
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001416:Back Pain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015902:Gamma Cameras; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008961:Models, Structural; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D013131:Spine / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate