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Recent Development in Low Dose Nuclear Medicine Gamma Camera Imaging

저선량 핵의학 감마카메라 영상장치의 최근 발전

  • Hwang, Kyung Hoon (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital) ;
  • Lee, Byeong-il (Korea Photonics Technology Institute) ;
  • Kim, Yongkwon (Korea Photonics Technology Institute) ;
  • Lee, Haejun (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gachon University Gil Hospital) ;
  • Sun, Yong Han (Department of Pediatrics, Gachon University Gil Hospital)
  • Received : 2015.08.01
  • Accepted : 2015.08.25
  • Published : 2015.08.30
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Abstract

Recently, new gamma camera systems enabling low radiation dose imaging have been developed. We reviewed the recent development of these low dose gamma camera systems including high sensitivity detectors, device structures, noise reduction filters, efficient image reconstruction algorithms, low dose protocols, and so on. It is expected that further technological advances reduce both radiation dose and imaging time in gamma camera imaging especially for radiation-sensitive patients such as pediatric patients.

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