Technological Advances in SPECT and SPECT/CT Imaging.

Single photon emission tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) is a mature imaging technology with a dynamic role in the diagnosis and monitoring of a wide array of diseases. This paper reviews the technological advances, clinical impact, and future directions of SPECT and SPECT/CT imaging. The focus of this review is on signal amplifier devices, detector materials, camera head and collimator designs, image reconstruction techniques, and quantitative methods.

Evaluation of institutional whole-body and extremity occupational radiation doses in nuclear medicine.

This study evaluated nuclear medicine occupational radiation doses at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, a 700-bed tertiary care teaching hospital in Oman. Personal effective whole-body doses, Hp(10), and extremity doses, Hp(0.07), were collected for 19 medical radiation workers over a 7-year period (2015-2021).