title: Breast Imaging Utilizing Dedicated Gamma Camera and (99m)Tc-MIBI: Experience at the Tel Aviv Medical Center and Review of the Literature Breast Imaging.
abstract: The scope of the current article is the clinical role of gamma cameras dedicated for breast imaging and (99m)Tc-MIBI tumor-seeking tracer, as both a screening modality among a healthy population and as a diagnostic modality in patients with breast cancer. Such cameras are now commercially available. The technology utilizing a camera composed of a NaI (Tl) detector is termed breast-specific gamma imaging. The technology of dual-headed camera composed of semiconductor cadmium zinc telluride detectors that directly converts gamma-ray energy into electronic signals is termed molecular breast imaging. Molecular breast imaging system has been installed at the Department of Nuclear medicine at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv in 2009. The article reviews the literature well as our own experience.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: evensap@tlvmc.gov.il.
authors.forename: Einat
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Even-Sapir
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Breast Imaging Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Orit
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Golan
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Breast surgery unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Tehillah
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Menes
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Breast Imaging Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Yuliana
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Weinstein
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Hedva
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lerman
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D001940:Breast / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi
chemical_list: D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi