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- This study aimed to evaluate how high-resolution cone-beam CT affects the interpretation of bone SPECT in peripheral skeleton diseases.
- Forty-one patients underwent imaging with high-resolution SPECT/CT, and the data showed significantly better diagnostic confidence and agreement among readers compared to low-resolution images.
- The findings suggest that high-resolution CT could greatly enhance the accuracy of SPECT imaging for diagnosing peripheral skeletal conditions.
Article Abstract
Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to determine the impact of high-resolution cone-beam CT with flat-panel detectors on the interpretation of bone SPECT in diseases of the peripheral skeleton.
Methods: Forty-one consecutive patients with peripheral skeletal disease were examined with a SPECT/high-resolution CT system providing isotropic voxels of 0.33 × 0.33 × 0.33 mm. High-resolution images were retrospectively analyzed by 2 readers and compared with low-resolution images obtained by filtering the high-resolution images to a lower resolution.
Results: SPECT/high-resolution CT demonstrated higher diagnostic confidence scores (1.98 ± 0.27 vs. 1.3 ± 0.45, P < 0.01) and better interobserver agreement (κ = 0.5 vs. 0.2) than SPECT/low-resolution CT. The diagnosis made by SPECT/high-resolution CT was in agreement with the final clinical diagnosis in 95% (reader 1) and 90% (reader 2) of the cases, as compared with 59% (reader 1) and 60% (reader 2) of the cases for SPECT/low-resolution CT (P < 0.01).
Conclusion: High-resolution flat-panel CT has the potential to significantly improve SPECT/CT imaging in diseases of the peripheral skeleton.
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