The lightweight system easily fits into a 7' x 9' room, and offers increased patient comfort, excellent image quality and patient throughputs comparable to dual head cameras. Elimination of PMTs and the incorporation of miniaturized semiconductor electronics also result in a much thinner and lighter weight head that permits imaging all the way to the edge of the head. Procedures that require the imager head to be positioned extremely close to the body can be performed with ease. Imager also has excellent performance. Intrinsic spatial resolution is 3 mm.
Contrast is excellent.
Maximum counting rates exceeds 250,000 cps making the camera a perfect choice for First Pass studies. Imager is docked to the head-positioning gantry. This seated position is much more comfortable than lying supine with the left arm raised above the head. Patients rave about the comfort of the chair. Patient motion has not been a problem because of this improvement in comfort.