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01-04-2016 | Editorial

How to use cardiac IQ•SPECT routinely? An overview of tips and tricks from practical experience to the literature

Authors: Eric Gremillet, Denis Agostini

Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging | Issue 4/2016

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The main part of the IQ•SPECT tomographic system developed by Siemens dedicated to cardiac imaging is a multifocal collimator called SMARTZOOM. The system can be installed on Symbia cameras from the same manufacturer. Besides a pair of SMARTZOOM collimators, it includes cardiocentric acquisition software and reconstruction software that takes into account this particular geometry of detection in an OSEM algorithm and can correct for scatter diffusion. Although presented as optional by the manufacturer, attenuation correction (AC) using a CT scan (with 2 to 16 detectors, depending on the exact model of Symbia camera) is an additional and essential feature. The multifocal geometry of SMARTZOOM enables magnification of the centre of the field of view where the heart lies by a factor of up to four while avoiding truncation of lateral parts of the patient’s torso. …

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Title: How to use cardiac IQ•SPECT routinely? An overview of tips and tricks from practical experience to the literature
Authors: Eric Gremillet
Denis Agostini
Publication date: 01-04-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 1619-7070
Electronic ISSN: 1619-7089
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-015-3269-1

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