title: SPECT/CT and tumour imaging.
abstract: Scintigraphic techniques are sensitive imaging modalities in the diagnosis and follow-up of cancer patients providing the functional and metabolic activity characteristics of the tumour. Hybrid SPECT/CT improves the diagnostic accuracy of these well-established imaging techniques by precise anatomical localization and characterization of morphological findings, differentiation between foci of physiological and pathological tracer uptake, resulting in a significant impact on patient management and more definitive interpretations. The use of SPECT/CT has been studied in a variety of applications in tumour imaging which are reviewed in this article. By combining functional and anatomical information in a single imaging session, SPECT/CT has become a one-stop cancer imaging modality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Rambam Health Care Campus, 6 Ha'Aliya Street, 31096, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Gad
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Abikhzer
authors.forename: Zohar
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Keidar
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals