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SPECT and the bone scan are an older type of nuclear scan, still used for bone metastases and to check where a radioactive drug went after treatment.
SPECT uses gamma cameras to detect single photons from isotopes such as 99mTc, 111In and 177Lu, rotating around the patient to reconstruct a 3D distribution. The 99mTc-MDP bone scan is its most familiar oncology use, detecting skeletal metastases through increased bone turnover, although PSMA PET is displacing it in prostate cancer. Its growing role is in theranostics: SPECT/CT after 177Lu therapy shows where the radioligand went and enables post-treatment dosimetry, a key enabler of personalised radioligand dosing. It is cheap and widespread, but its resolution and sensitivity are lower than PET, and standardising dosimetry protocols across centres remains work in progress. SPECT is the older nuclear scan still used for bone metastases and for checking where a radioactive drug ended up.
Gamma cameras detect single photons from 99mTc, 111In, 177Lu; rotating acquisition reconstructs 3D distribution.
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The purpose-built tracer for sentinel lymph node mapping in breast cancer, melanoma and oral cancer, replacing off-label sulfur colloid.
Query for this technology: (TITLE:"SPECT/CT" OR ABSTRACT:"SPECT/CT" OR TITLE:"bone scan" OR ABSTRACT:"bone scan" OR TITLE:"dosimetry SPECT" OR ABSTRACT:"dosimetry SPECT") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about SPECT & bone scan, not a curated reading list.
Shares Radionuclide generators and cold kits, CT, MRI and PET scanner manufacturing, GE HealthCare, Siemens Healthineers.
Shares Nuclear medicine and total-body PET hardware, CT, MRI and PET scanner manufacturing, Total-body PET for personalised radioligand dosing.
Shares Radionuclide generators and cold kits, GE HealthCare, Research reactors for medical isotopes (Mo-99, Lu-177, I-131), Siemens Healthineers.
Shares Radionuclide generators and cold kits, Research reactors for medical isotopes (Mo-99, Lu-177, I-131).
Shares Radioligand dosimetry, SPECT/CT, Radioligand therapy (beta emitters).
Shares Mediso, Nuclear medicine and total-body PET hardware, CT, MRI and PET scanner manufacturing, SPECT/CT.
Shares Radioiodine therapy and whole-body iodine scanning, Dosimetry, Radioligand therapy (beta emitters).
Shares Radionuclide generators and cold kits, Research reactors for medical isotopes (Mo-99, Lu-177, I-131).
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The original GATE code base for imaging and dosimetry simulations.
The OpenGATE collaboration's Geant4-based simulation platform for PET, SPECT, CT and radiotherapy dosimetry, now in Python.
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Tiny library for calculating Standardized Uptake Value for Nuclear Medicine (i.e.
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