Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

If someone is suffering from sudden, unexplained chest pain, doctors may order a stress test to try to find the cause. As part of that test, doctors either use a treadmill or a chemical to "rev" up ...

SIOUX CITY | Taking a picture of the heart's function is faster, safer and more detailed than ever at UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's Cardiology Services / Cardiovascular Associates. On the second ...

As represented by conventional radiograph, radiological images provide only black and white figures in 2D space. The situation is basically the same for Single photon emission tomography (SPECT) and ...

e) Purpose - SPECT gamma camera for all non-PET nuclear imaging studies to be used while construction and installation of new equipment and acceptance by medical physicist is underway. f) Governing ...

Researchers in Japan are developing a medical camera that can simultaneously detect radioactive tracers used for PET and SPECT scans. The team has now demonstrated that the camera can image both ...

Use of a gamma camera to image sentinel lymph nodes during cancer surgery can help the surgeon assess the extent of cancer spread, and could help reduce mortality rates. Portable gamma camera systems ...

Researchers invented a Compton camera of 580g which visualizes gamma rays of arbitrary energies, and succeeded in achieving a high-resolution, multicolor 3-D molecular image of a live mouse ...