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Oh, SPECT/CT Vendors...

Posted Sep 15 2011 11:20pm





I've got a little money burning a hole in my pocket...

We need a SPECT/CT, and last year, at RSNA, I had the chance to evaluate the main contenders, which are discussed in THIS post. The Siemens Symbia T-16 and the GE Discovery NM/CT 670 appear to be good machines, although I was not that impressed with the sample SPECT data from either one. Siemens probably has the better gamma camera and GE has a newer flavor of CT.  Decisions, decisions.

But Houston (or Milwaukee/Erlangen), we have another problem:  To justify spending what we have to spend on this thing, we will need to use it as a stand-alone CT at least some of the time. So I need a real workhorse CT, one that can do bread-and-butter scanning.  Which in this day and age includes cardiac work. Thus, I need a 64-slicer attached to my SPECT.

Right now, the only 64-slice SPECT/CT is the GE Discovery NM/CT 570c
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