New SPECT data from Sweden

Herewith some excerpts from Professor Marika Bajc's Clinical Physiology Group in Lunde, Sweden, that includes some recently published V/Q SPECT and some  experimental work in pigs.
e-mail: marika.bajc@klinfys.lu.se

Planar views of patient with PE

Note: single lesion clearly identified.

Tomography views plus V/Q “quotient”

Reprinted by permission of the Society of Nuclear Medicine from: Palmer J, Bitzen U, Jonson B, Bajc M.
Comprehensive ventilation/perfusion SPECT. J Nucl Med 2001 ;42(8):1288-94.

Pig with four  ²⁰¹Tl labeled induced emboli

Planar views

One perfusion defect in the right lung is well delineated

Tomographic views

Frontal slices from anterior to posterior.
All four perfusion defects corresponding to emboli are well delineated

Rotating tomographic view

reprinted by permission of the Society of Nuclear Medicine from:  Bajc M, Bitzen U, Olsson B, Perez de Sa V, Palmer J, Jonson B. Lung ventilation/perfusion SPECT in the artificially embolized pig.
 J Nucl Med 2002;43: 640-647.

See also the editorial comment by Meignan MA "Lung ventilation/pertusion SPECT: the right technique for hard times". J Nucl Med 2002; 43:648-651.