The development of a low cost and high performance SPECT in China

Author

Bao, Shanglian ; Wang, Naishan ; Cai, Jianxin ; Liu, Jinquan

Author_Institution

Inst. of Heavy Ion Phys., Peking Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-5 Nov 1994

Firstpage

1285

Abstract

The development of a low cost and high performance SPECT system in China is proceeding in the authors´ institute. Because the MPTs number does not influence very much the spatial resolution, and the cost of the system can be reduced a lot, the number of MPTs in the system is fixed to be 37. As the system´s target is the hospitals in middle-sized cities in China it has to be low cost and high performance. Therefore the system is more general and has all the performance of planar imaging and ECT of a gamma camera, which means that whole body scanning, static study, dynamical study and ECT studies are all possible. The computer used in the system is the PC 486/D66 general computer, which makes the software easily compatible as the hardware of PC computers advances

Keywords

biomedical equipment; single photon emission computed tomography; 486/D66 general computer; China; Chinese hospitals; MPT; dynamical study; emission computerized tomography; gamma camera; low cost/high performance SPECT system; medical diagnostic imaging; medical instrumentation; middle-sized cities; nuclear medicine; planar imaging; static study; Biomedical imaging; Cities and towns; Computer displays; Costs; Electrical capacitance tomography; Energy resolution; Hospitals; Image resolution; Linearity; Physics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record

Conference_Location

Norfolk, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2544-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474594

Filename

474594