What does the equipment used in a cardiac nuclear medicine test look like?

What does the equipment used in a cardiac nuclear medicine test look like?

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The equipment are basically what we call single-photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT systems. These are usually gamma camera systems that have what we call two heads or three heads. The heads are basically the detectors which surround the patient, and they are able to acquire or record the gamma rays that come off of the patient, and that data is used by the computer to form an image of the heart.