Brightview XCT

Has anyone yet had one of these installed?

If you want to do myocardial perfusion with attenuation correction, how much extra time does the AC take in practice? From a picture it looks like the heads wiill have to reconfigure to do the AC part since, in L mode, they obscure the flat panel xray detector. Right?

Asking other colleagues, I reckon Symbia T2 takes extra 20sec, T6 takes 10sec, GeHawkeye 4 takes 20s. Do these figures sound right?

Best Wishes

I am the Product Manager for the Philips BrightView XCT. The SPECT detectors do not need to be reconfigured when performing a Relative-90 (L-mode) cardiac SPECT acquisition with attenuation correction. The SPECT detectors remain in the Rel-90 position during both the CT-AC acquisition and the SPECT acquisition. There is sufficient space between the Rel-90 SPECT detectors for the x-ray beam to reach the flat panel detector. When performing a localization study, the SPECT detectors remain in the Rel-180 position during both the CT and SPECT acquisitions. There is no detector angle reconfiguration needed between the CT and SPECT acquisitions within the SPECT/CT protocol.

Jody,

Thanks for your reply, it's very helpful. Ive now received from our local supplier some clinical images, it looks good.

Mike

I'm a french medical physicist and I need some information on SPECT-CT present and future solutions to prepare a presentation on this topic during a post-graduate teaching course. It would be very kind if you could help me in anyway. Thanks in advance. Olivier CASELLES, caselles.olivier@claudiusregau d.fr