{"id":22599,"date":"2017-11-20T08:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T03:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=22599"},"modified":"2017-11-20T08:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T03:04:52","slug":"spect-single-photon-emission-computed-tomography-advantages-and-disadvantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/spect-single-photon-emission-computed-tomography-advantages-and-disadvantages\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECT -single photon emission computed tomography &#8211; advantages and disadvantages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) &#8211; advantages and disadvantages<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5TCESnQNyls\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Advantages of single photon emission computed tomography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Important advantages of SPECT are that it has been extensively validated and <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">has a good sensitivity, compared to other methods of assessment of myocardial viability<\/span>. Cost of SPECT is lower than PET (positron emission tomography) imaging and is more widely available than PET in most regions. SPECT can be used in the presence of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) while cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has important limitations in this setting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Disadvantages of SPECT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SPECT has a much higher cost compared to echocardiography and less availability compared to echo. Spatial resolution of SPECT is limited. There is a potential difficulty in interpreting SPECT results in patients with three vessel disease and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/balanced-myocardial-ischaemia\/\">balanced myocardial ischemia<\/a> [1,2] as the SPECT interpretation depends on comparing the counts between normal abnormal regions. Compared to CMR and echocardiography, SPECT has some radiation risk, though not very high.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reference<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Emad F, Javed F, Alviar CL, Herzog E.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22355489\">Triple vessel coronary artery disease presenting as a markedly positive stress electrocardiographic test and a negative SPECT-TL scintigram: a case of balanced ischemia<\/a>.&nbsp;Heart Int. 2011 Sep 29; 6(2): e22.<\/li>\n<li>Aziz EF, Javed F, Alviar CL, Herzog E. Triple vessel coronary artery disease presenting as a markedly positive stress electrocardiographic test and a negative SPECT-TL scintigram: a case of balanced ischemia. Heart Int. 2011 Sep 29; 6(2): e22.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) &#8211; pros and cons: Important advantages of SPECT are that it has been extensively validated and has a good sensitivity, compared to other methods of assessment of myocardial viability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuclear-cardiology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>single photon emission computed tomography - pros and cons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT): extensively validated and has good sensitivity for myocardial viability assessment.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/spect-single-photon-emission-computed-tomography-advantages-and-disadvantages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"single photon emission computed tomography - pros and cons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT): extensively validated and has good sensitivity for myocardial viability assessment.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/spect-single-photon-emission-computed-tomography-advantages-and-disadvantages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-20T03:04:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Johnson Francis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Johnson Francis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/spect-single-photon-emission-computed-tomography-advantages-and-disadvantages\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/spect-single-photon-emission-computed-tomography-advantages-and-disadvantages\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Johnson Francis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/johnsonfrancis.org\\\/professional\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5441d907049b914770f4bd98fb57feec\"},\"headline\":\"SPECT -single photon emission computed tomography &#8211; 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