Radiological Society of North America

New imaging device increases the speed of imaging more than 10-fold

Published in Medical Imaging Week, December 31st, 2005

Details of a new technology that holds promise to revolutionize the field of molecular imaging by increasing the speed of imaging more than 10-fold.were revealed at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

The new technology, Dynamic SPECT (D-SPECT), employs a compact camera with a bank of detector/collimator columns. Tungsten collimators are employed in front of multiple small cadmium zinc telluride crystals.

Each detector column turns independently, allowing the object of interest to be viewed from hundreds to thousands of different viewing angles, according to lead author Daniel S. Berman, MD, professor of medicine at...

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Source: Medical Imaging Week (2005-12-31)

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