Standardized volumetric 3D-analysis of SPECT/CT imaging in orthopaedics: Overcoming the limitations of qualitative 2D analysis

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hirschmann, Michael T ^a   Wagner, Christopher R ^b   Rasch, Helmut ^c   Henckel, Johann ^d  

^a Kantonsspital Bruderholz ^*  (Switzerland)

^b OrthoImagingSolutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine   (Switzerland)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KNEE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; SWITZERLAND; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JOINT DISEASES; KNEE JOINT; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84858994191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-12-5     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bybel B, Brunken RC, DiFilippo FP, Neumann DR, Wu G, Cerqueira MD. SPECT/CT imaging: clinical utility of an emerging technology. Radiographics 2008, 28:1097-1113.
2. Patton JA, Turkington TG. SPECT/CT physical principles and attenuation correction. J Nucl Med Technol 2008, 36:1-10.
3. Schillaci O. Hybrid SPECT/CT: a new era for SPECT imaging?. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2005, 32:521-524.
4. O'Connor MK, Kemp BJ. Single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography: basic instrumentation and innovations. Semin Nucl Med 2006, 36:258-266.
5. Bernstein MP, Caldwell CB, Antonyshyn OM, Cooper PW, Ehrlich LE. Spatial and temporal registration of CT and SPECT images: development and validation of a technique for in vivo three-dimensional semiquantitative analysis of bone. J Nucl Med 2000, 41:1075-1081.
6. Bocher M, Balan A, Krausz Y, Shrem Y, Lonn A, Wilk M, Chisin R. Gamma camera-mounted anatomical X-ray tomography: technology, system characteristics and first images. Eur J Nucl Med 2000, 27:619-627.
7. Agriantonis DJ, Hall L, Wilson MA. Utility of SPECT/CT as an adjunct to planar whole body I-131 imaging: liver metastasis from papillary thyroid cancer. Clin Nucl Med 2009, 34:247-248.
8. Akincioglu C, Belhocine T, Gambhir S, Romsa J, Chouraiki G, Kribs S, Elliot JA, Vezina W, Urbain JL. Complementary roles of low-dose SPECT-CT and high-resolution volume CT for detection of coronary artery disease. Clin Nucl Med 2008, 33:285-287.
9. Even-Sapir E, Keidar Z, Bar-Shalom R. Hybrid Imaging (SPECT/CT and PET/CT)-improving the diagnostic accuracy of functional/metabolic and anatomic imaging. Semin Nucl Med 2009, 39:264-275.
10. Hirschmann MT, Iranpour F, Davda K, Rasch H, Hugli R, Friederich NF. Combined single-photon emission computerized tomography and conventional computerized tomography (SPECT/CT): clinical value for the knee surgeons?. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 2009, 18:341-345.
11. Hirschmann MT, Iranpour F, Konala P, Kerner A, Rasch H, Cobb JP, Friederich NF. A novel standardized algorithm for evaluating patients with painful total knee arthroplasty using combined single photon emission tomography and conventional computerized tomography. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 2010, 18:939-44.
12. Blake GM, Frost ML, Fogelman I. Quantitative radionuclide studies of bone. J Nucl Med 2009, 50:1747-1750.
13. Blake GM, Moore AE, Fogelman I. Quantitative studies of bone using (99m)Tc-methylene diphosphonate skeletal plasma clearance. Semin Nucl Med 2009, 39:369-379.
14. Filippi L, Manni C, Pierantozzi M, Brusa L, Danieli R, Stanzione P, Schillaci O. 123I-FP-CIT semi-quantitative SPECT detects preclinical bilateral dopaminergic deficit in early Parkinson's disease with unilateral symptoms. Nucl Med Commun 2005, 26:421-426.
15. Sacchetti GM, Ghisellini F, Brambilla M, De Consoli A, Fornara P, Rizzo E, Rudoni M, Inglese E, Cannas M. Quantitative scintigraphic evaluation of total knee arthroplasties: a feasibility study. Clin Orthop Relat Res 1996, 325:181-189.
16. Shiraishi S, Tomiguchi S, Utsunomiya D, Kawanaka K, Awai K, Morishita S, Okuda T, Yokotsuka K, Yamashita Y. Quantitative analysis and effect of attenuation correction on lymph node staging of non-small cell lung cancer on SPECT and CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2006, 186:1450-1457.
17. Pennock GR, Clark KJ. An anatomy-based coordinate system for the description of the kinematic displacements in the human knee. J Biomech 1990, 23:1209-1218.
18. Hirschmann MT, Konala P, Amsler F, Iranpour F, Friederich NF, Cobb JP. Comparison of inter- and intra-observer reliability of component position measurements in total knee arthroplasty on conventional radiographs, transverse 2D-CT slices and 3D-CT. J Bone Joint Surg Br 2010, 93:629-633.
19. Henckel J, Richards R, Lozhkin K, Harris S, Baena FM, Barrett AR, Cobb JP. Very low-dose computed tomography for planning and outcome measurement in knee replacement. The imperial knee protocol. J Bone Joint Surg Br 2006, 88:1513-1518.
20. Hirschmann MT, Davda K, Iranpour F, Rasch H, Friederich NF. Combined single photon emission computerised tomography and conventional computerised tomography (SPECT/CT) in patellofemoral disorders: a clinical review. Int Orthop 2011, 35:675-680.
21. Hirschmann MT, Konala P, Iranpour F, Kerner A, Rasch H, Friederich NF. Clinical value of SPECT-CT for evaluation of patients with painful knees after total knee arthroplasty - a new dimension of diagnostics. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2011, 12:36.
22. Hirschmann MT, Adler T, Rasch H, Hugli RW, Friederich NF, Arnold MP. Painful knee joint after ACL reconstruction using biodegradable interference screws- SPECT/CT a valuable diagnostic tool? A case report. Sports Med Arthrosc Rehabil Ther Technol 2:24.
23. Konala P, Iranpour F, Kerner A, Rasch H, Friederich NF, Hirschmann MT. Clinical benefit of SPECT/CT for follow-up of surgical treatment of osteochondritis dissecans. Ann Nucl Med 24:621-624.