Search Tag: single photon emission computed tomography
Spect-imaging-helps-distinguish-depression-from-dementia
2017 20 Feb
Overlapping symptoms make it difficult for clinicians to distinguish between depression and a cognitive disorder (CD) such as Alzheimer's disease. Now a new study in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease shows that single photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT, could distinguish depression from CDs with 86 percent accuracy. In addition, brain SPECT...Read more
Medical-imaging-achieved-without-tomography
2021 05 Nov
A research team, led by investigators at the University of California, Davis, and Hamamatsu Photonics, has demonstrated the first experimental cross-sectional medical image that doesn't require tomography. The work, published 14 October in Nature Photonics , could allow medical imaging with better sensitivity and time resolution. Normally, X-ray...Read more