Cardiac Hybrid or Fusion Imaging of CT and SPECT

doi:10.15344/2456-446X/2016/112

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International Journal of Radiology & Medical Imaging Volume 2 (2016), Article ID 2:IJRMI-112, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-446X/2016/112

Review Article

Cardiac Hybrid or Fusion Imaging of CT and SPECT

Shinro Matsuo

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan

Corresponding Author Details: Dr. Shinro Matsuo, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa 920-8641, Japan; E-mail: smatsuo@nmd.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp

Received: 04 March 2016; Accepted: 06 July 2016; Published: 08 July 2016

Citation: Matsuo S (2016) Cardiac Hybrid or Fusion Imaging of CT and SPECT. Int J Radiol Med Imag 2: 112. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-446X/2016/112

Funding: The study was supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) in Japan (Grant number 23591755). The author appreciates the contributions of the staff of the departments of nuclear medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital.

Copyright: © 2016 Matsuo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Cardiac single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)/ computed tomography (CT) has been introduced to provide anatomical information on such as coronary calcification combined with functional information of myocardial perfusion imaging. Fusion imaging provides accurate coregistration of coronary stenosis and perfusion abnormalities, and allows identification of reduced coronary flow reserve. This article shows an overview of relevant literature including clinical value in SPECT/CT.

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