EANM procedural guidelines for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy using cardiac-centered gamma cameras

Hyafil, FabienHop Xavier Bichat, AP HP, Dept Nucl Med, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, F-75018 Paris, France.;Paris Diderot Paris 7 Univ, Inserm UMR 1148, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, F-75018 Paris, France. (author)

An increasing number of Nuclear Medicine sites in Europe are using cardiac-centered gamma cameras for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS). Three cardiac-centered gamma cameras are currently the most frequently used in Europe: the D-SPECT (Spectrum Dynamics), the Alcyone (Discovery NM 530c and Discovery NM/CT 570c; General Electric Medical Systems), and the IQ-SPECT (Siemens Healthcare). The increased myocardial count sensitivity of these three cardiac-centered systems has allowed for a decrease in the activities of radiopharmaceuticals injected to patients for myocardial perfusion imaging and, consequently, radiation exposure of patients. When setting up protocols for MPS, the overall objective should be to maintain high diagnostic accuracy of MPS, while injecting the lowest activities reasonably achievable to reduce the level of radiation exposure of patient and staff. These guidelines aim at providing recommendations for acquisition protocols and image interpretation using cardiac-centered cameras. As each imaging system has specific design and features for image acquisition and analysis, these guidelines have been separated into three sections for each gamma camera system. These recommendations have been written by the members of the Cardiovascular Committee of EANM and were based on their own experience with each of these systems and on the existing literature.

Gimelli, AlessiaFdn Toscana CNR Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy. (author)
Slart, Riemer H. J. A.Univ Med Ctr Groningen, Med Imaging Ctr, Dept Nucl Med & Mol Imaging, Groningen, Netherlands.;Univ Twente, TechMed Ctr, Dept Biomed Photon Imaging, Enschede, Netherlands. (author)
Georgoulias, PanagiotisUniv Thessaly, Univ Hosp Larissa, Dept Nucl Med, Larisa, Greece. (author)
Rischpler, ChristophUniv Duisburg Essen, Univ Hosp Essen, Dept Nucl Med, Essen, Germany. (author)
Lubberink, MarkUppsala universitet,Radiologi,Institutionen för immunologi, genetik och patologi,Uppsala Univ Hosp, Dept Med Phys, Uppsala, Sweden.;Uppsala Univ Hosp, PET Ctr, Uppsala, Sweden.(Swepub:uu)marklubb (author)
Sciagra, RobertoUniv Florence, Dept Expt & Clin Biomed Sci, Nucl Med Unit, Florence, Italy. (author)
Bucerius, JanMaastricht Univ, Dept Nucl Med, Med Ctr, Maastricht, Netherlands.;Maastricht Univ, Med Ctr, Cardiovasc Res Inst Maastricht CARIM, Maastricht, Netherlands.;Univ Hosp RWTH Aachen, Dept Nucl Med, Aachen, Germany. (author)
Agostini, DenisCHU Caen Normandy Univ, Dept Nucl Med, Caen, France. (author)
Verberne, Hein J.Univ Amsterdam, Dept Radiol & Nucl Med, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (author)
Hop Xavier Bichat, AP HP, Dept Nucl Med, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, F-75018 Paris, France.;Paris Diderot Paris 7 Univ, Inserm UMR 1148, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, F-75018 Paris, France.Fdn Toscana CNR Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy. (creator_code:org_t)

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